Surrealism At Play

Informationen zum Autor Susan Laxton Klappentext Susan Laxton is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Riverside, and the author of Paris as Gameboard: Man Ray's Atgets. Zusammenfassung Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy, showing how its emphasis on chance provided the means to refashion artistic practice and everyday experience. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations  ix Acknowledgments  xv Introduction. A Modern Critical Ludic  1 1. Blur  29 2. Drift  72 3. System  137 4. Pun  185 5. Postlude  246 Notes  273 Bibliography  331 Index  351

Product details

• Authors: Susan Laxton
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781478003076
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0307-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Art History Publication Initia; Art History Publication Initiative; Art History Publication Initia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Fotografie, Naher und Mittlerer Osten, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), Art & Art Instruction, PHOTOGRAPHY / History