Through the analysis of narratives, paintings and objets surr�alistes by Breton, Aragon, Dal�, and others, Malt examines how the object emerges as psychologically and historically marked in the surrealist context, functioning as both fetish and fetishized commodity. Responding to recent debates about the role of the uncanny and the representation of the body in surrealist art and literature, Malt's study offers new perspectives on familiar works such as the paintings of Salvador Dal� as well as illuminating relatively neglected ones such as Breton's po�mes-objets.
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`Malt's Obscure Objects of Desire offers a valuable synthesis of literary and art-historical analytical approaches to the study of surrealism, as well as a complex picture of the idealogical structures the surrealists both confronted and fetishized.' Modernism/Modernity
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Johanna Malt is at Lecturer in the Department of French, Kings College, University of London.
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In 1935 in Prague, Andre Breton delivered a lecture entitled 'Position politique de l'art d'aujourd'hui'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fetishizing forces, fetish surface, hermetic surface, slipper spoon, surrealist object, bronze glove, surrealist context, fetish status, obsolete commodities, compulsive beauty, jeu lugubre, surrealist activity, surrealist imagery, fetishistic disavowal, surrealist photography, auratic object, surrealist revolution, wish symbols, profane illumination, surrealist project, surrealist works, objective chance, commodity society, surrealist practice, fetishized commodity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Arcades Project, Les Vases, Aesthetic Theory, Hal Foster, Harris Smith, Walter Benjamin, Susan Buck-Morss, Martin Jay, Theodor Adorno, Dialectics of Seeing, Laura Mulvey, Margaret Cohen, Michael Sheringham, New York, Age of Mechanical, Dada Turns Red, Dawn Ades, Helena Lewis, Man Ray, Miriam Hansen, Oscar Dominguez, Phil Powrie, Some Motifs, User's Guide, Anne Friedberg New!
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In 1935 in Prague, Andre Breton delivered a lecture entitled 'Position politique de l'art d'aujourd'hui'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fetishizing forces, fetish surface, hermetic surface, slipper spoon, surrealist object, bronze glove, surrealist context, fetish status, obsolete commodities, compulsive beauty, jeu lugubre, surrealist activity, surrealist imagery, fetishistic disavowal, surrealist photography, auratic object, surrealist revolution, wish symbols, profane illumination, surrealist project, surrealist works, objective chance, commodity society, surrealist practice, fetishized commodity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Arcades Project, Les Vases, Aesthetic Theory, Hal Foster, Harris Smith, Walter Benjamin, Susan Buck-Morss, Martin Jay, Theodor Adorno, Dialectics of Seeing, Laura Mulvey, Margaret Cohen, Michael Sheringham, New York, Age of Mechanical, Dada Turns Red, Dawn Ades, Helena Lewis, Man Ray, Miriam Hansen, Oscar Dominguez, Phil Powrie, Some Motifs, User's Guide, Anne Friedberg New!
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- The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin on 22 pages
- Compulsive Beauty (October Books) by Hal Foster on 17 pages
- Aesthetic Theory (Theory and History of Literature) by Theodor W. Adorno on 16 pages
- What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings by Andre Breton on 8 pages
- What Is Surrealism? by André Breton on 8 pages
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