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Compulsive Beauty

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ISBN-10: 026256081X

ISBN-13: 9780262560818

Edition: 1995

Authors: Hal Foster

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Surrealism has long been seen as its founder, Andre Breton, wanted it to be seen: as a movement of love and liberation. In Compulsive Beauty, Foster reads surrealism from its other, darker side: as an art given over to the uncanny, to the compulsion to repeat and the drive toward death. Compulsive Beautynot only offers a deconstructive reading of surrealism, long neglected by Anglo-American art history, it also participates in a postmodern reconsideration of modernism, the dominant accounts of which have obscured its involvements in desire and trauma, capitalist shock and technological development.
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Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 3/27/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 338
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

Hal Foster is the Townsend Martin Class of 1917 Professor of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University, and the author of many books, including "The Return of the Real", "Design and Crime", "Prosthetic Gods", and "The Art-Architecture Complex". A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was the 2010 recipient of the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing and the 2013 recipient of the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism.

Preface
Beyond the Pleasure Principle?
Compulsive Beauty
Convulsive Identity
Fatal Attraction
Exquisite Corpses
Outmoded Spaces
Auratic Traces
Beyond the Surrealism Principle?
Notes
List of Illustrations
Index