Surrealist Art and Writing, 1919-1939 offers a fresh analysis of Surrealism--of the artists Dalí, Ernst, Masson and Tanguy and the writing of Surrealism's leaders--André Breton, Aragon and Eluard. Spector uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine how the ideas and images of this avant-garde movement grew up in anipathy to middle class values. He situates the concrete products of Surrealist art and writing in their historical context without losing sight of larger theoretical and ideological issues involving psychoanalysis, Marxism and philosophy.
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Surrealist Art & Writing, 1919-1939 offers a fresh analysis of Surrealism--of the artists Dali, Ernst, Masson and Tanguy and the writing of Surrealism's leaders--André Breton, Aragon and Eluard. Spector uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine how the ideas and images of this avant-garde movement grew up in anipathy to middle class values. He situates the concrete products of Surrealist art and writing in their historical context without losing sight of larger theoretical and ideological issues involving psychoanalysis, Marxism and philosophy.
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At first sight the idiosyncrasies of Surrealist art and writing might seem to detach the movement from its own time and place. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
convulsive love, paranoiac criticism, convulsive beauty, surrealist photography, first manifesto, cadavre exquis, dream sessions, surrealist writing, surrealist objects, surrealist art, vois pas, amour fou, automatic drawing, communicating vessels, surrealist images, colonial exhibition, distant realities, dream accounts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Man Ray, First Manifesto, Communist Party, Second Manifesto, Socialist Realism, Third Republic, Soviet Union, Giorgio De Chirico, Interpretation of Dreams, Great Masturbator, Russian Revolution, Social Realism, Suzanne Muzard, Third World, Breton's Surrealists, French Revolution, Max Ernst, New York, Germaine Berton, United States, Paul Eluard, Perhaps Breton, The Most Recent Tendencies New!
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At first sight the idiosyncrasies of Surrealist art and writing might seem to detach the movement from its own time and place. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
convulsive love, paranoiac criticism, convulsive beauty, surrealist photography, first manifesto, cadavre exquis, dream sessions, surrealist writing, surrealist objects, surrealist art, vois pas, amour fou, automatic drawing, communicating vessels, surrealist images, colonial exhibition, distant realities, dream accounts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Man Ray, First Manifesto, Communist Party, Second Manifesto, Socialist Realism, Third Republic, Soviet Union, Giorgio De Chirico, Interpretation of Dreams, Great Masturbator, Russian Revolution, Social Realism, Suzanne Muzard, Third World, Breton's Surrealists, French Revolution, Max Ernst, New York, Germaine Berton, United States, Paul Eluard, Perhaps Breton, The Most Recent Tendencies New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Surrealism and Painting by AndrE, Breton on 37 pages
- The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud on 10 pages
- Compulsive Beauty (October Books) by Hal Foster on 6 pages
- Les Contemplations by Victor Hugo on page 152, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Les Collages by Louis Aragon in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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