Surrealist Art and Writing, 1919-1939 The Gold of Time

Name: Surrealist Art and Writing, 1919-1939 The Gold of Time
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ISBN: 9780521657396

ISBN-10: 0521657393

ISBN-13: 9780521657396

Edition: 1999

Authors: Jack J. Spector, Donald Kuspit

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Surrealist Art and Writing offers a fresh analysis of Surrealism, the avant-garde movement that, in its search for contemporary lyricism and imagery, united literature and art to politics and psychology. Examining Surrealism's main phases from a variety of perspectives, Jack Spector emphasises the rebellion of the protagonists against their middle-class education. In Manifestos and Manifestations the Surrealists promoted Marxist over liberal politics; Freudian psychoanalysis over French psychiatry; Hegelian dialectics over Cartesian logic; and the outmoded, psychotic, or childish over modernist art. This study offers a coherent overview of the exciting and important interwar period in…

Book details

List price: $40.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/28/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 7.01" wide x 9.96" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English




Introduction



Breaking the institutional codes: revolution in the classroom



The politics of dream and the dream of politics



In the service of which revolution? An aborted incarnation of the dream: Marxism and Surrealism



Surrealism and painting (The ineffable)



The Surrealist woman and the colonial other