Investigating Sex - Surrealist Discussions

Informationen zum Autor José Pierre was a playwright, novelist and art historian. He belonged to the postwar Paris surrealist group that formed around André Breton. He was a member of Actual, an archive for the dissemination of the secret history of surrealism. JoAnn Wypijewski is a writer and editor based in New York. From 1982 to 2000, she was an editor at the Nation magazine. She has written for the magazine, as well as for Harper's , CounterPunch , the New York Times Magazine , the Guardian , and other publications. She is on the editorial committee of the New Left Review . She was the co-editor with Kevin Alexander Gray and Jeffrey St. Clair, of Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence . José Pierre was a playwright, novelist and art historian. He belonged to the postwar Paris surrealist group that formed around André Breton. He was a member of Actual, an archive for the dissemination of the secret history of surrealism. Klappentext "The surrealist's approach to sexuality was original and important ... I feel this book will amaze us all." George Melly Zusammenfassung Records various aspects of sexual love, cataloguing preferences and positions, quality and quantity. This is a fundamental text for understanding the surrealist movement and, for all its idiosyncrasies, a document that still retains an extraordinary vitality.

Product details

• Authors: Dawn Ades, Jose Pierre, José Pierre
• Assisted by: Jos Pierre (Editor), Jose Pierre (Editor), José Pierre (Editor), Wypijewski JoAnn (Introduction), Dawn Ades (Afterword), Malcolm Imrie (Translation), Imrie Malcolm (Translation)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.01.2012
• EAN: 9781844677122
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-712-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; ART / History / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, Surrealism, History of Art, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Sexual Behaviour, Art & Design Styles: Surrealism & Dada