Obscure Objects of Desire Surrealism, Fetishism, and Politics

Name: Obscure Objects of Desire Surrealism, Fetishism, and Politics
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ISBN: 9780199253425

ISBN-10: 0199253420

ISBN-13: 9780199253425

Edition: 2003

Authors: Johanna Malt

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In a speech given in Prague in 1935, Andr Breton asked, 'Is there, properly speaking, a left-wing art capable of defending itself?'. But despite his conviction that surrealism did indeed offer such an art, Breton always struggled to make a theoretical connection between the surrealists' commitment to the cause of revolutionary socialism and the form that surrealist art and literature took. Obscure Objects of Desire explores ways in which such a connection might be drawn, addressing the possibility of surrealist works as political in themselves and drawing on ways in which they have been considered as such by Marxists such as Benjamin and Adorno and by recent cultural critics. Encompassing…

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List price: $225.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/1/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 244
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Introduction



Subjectivity and Revolutionary Commitment



Archaeology and Mythology: Benjamin and Le Paysan de Paris



The Surrealist Object in Theory



The Surrealist Object as Fetish



Poetry in the Object World



Windows: Painting and the Fetish Surface


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index