Skip to content

Compulsive Beauty

Best in textbook rentals since 2012!

ISBN-10: 0262061600

ISBN-13: 9780262061605

Edition: 1993

Authors: Hal Foster

List price: $50.00
Blue ribbon 30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!
what's this?
Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:
Carrot Coin icon
XP icon
You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Surrealism has long been seen as its founder, Andr 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. To this end Foster first restages the difficult encounter of surrealism with Freudian psychoanalysis, then redefines the crucial categories of surrealism - the marvelous, convulsive beauty, objective chance - in terms of the Freudian uncanny,or the return of familar things made strange by repression. Next, with the art of Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, and Alberto Giacometti in mind, Foster develops a theory…    
Customers also bought

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/28/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 338
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.046
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?p. 1
Compulsive Beautyp. 19
Convulsive Identityp. 57
Fatal Attractionp. 101
Exquisite Corpsesp. 125
Outmoded Spacesp. 157
Auratic Tracesp. 193
Beyond the Surrealism Principle?p. 209
Notesp. 215
List of Illustrationsp. 299
Indexp. 305
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.