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

Fresh analysis of Surrealism in historical, social, and intellectual context.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Breaking the institutional codes: revolution in the classroom; 3. The politics of dream and the dream of politics; 4. In the service of which revolution? An aborted incarnation of the dream: Marxism and Surrealism; 5. Surrealism and painting (The ineffable); 6. The Surrealist woman and the colonial other.

Summary

Surrealist Art and Writing 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 antipathy to middle class values.

Product details

• Authors: Jack J. Spector, Jack J. (Rutgers University Spector, Spector Jack J.
• Assisted by: Donald Kuspit (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.01.1999
• EAN: 9780521657396
• ISBN: 978-0-521-65739-6
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Contemporary Artists and Their; Contemporary Artists and their Critics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; The arts: general issues, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), The arts: general topics