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Surrealist Look An Erotics of Encounter

ISBN-10: 0262032449

ISBN-13: 9780262032445

Edition: 1997

Authors: Mary A. Caws

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Description:

The author of Surrealism and Women examines the decors, games, portraits, transformations and mirrorings that establish Surrealism's links to Baroque forms of representation.

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Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/8/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 364
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English



Preface: Le Look


Acknowledgments



Look: Large and Baroque



Mode: Seeing Through



Problem: The Personal Surrealist



Figure: Breton's Melusine



Rhythm: Char and His Others



Body: Seeing the Surrealist Woman



Person: Tanning's Self-Portraiture



Doubling: Claude Cahun's Split Self



Fashion: Man Ray's Manipulations



Decor: Desnos in Mourning



Painting: Artaud and Monsieur Desir



Constructing: Joseph Cornell's Metaphysics of Memory



Game: Exquisite Excessive Corpse



Face: Still Envisaging Andre Breton



Pointing: Wittgenstein and Duchamp



Meeting: The Erotics of Encounter



A Haunting Look


Notes


Index