Radical Dreams - Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance

"A collection of essays examining surrealism's cultural adaptations and genealogical descendants from the 1960s through the late 1980s. Explores surrealism's interactions with radical politics, protest movements, the sexual revolution, psychedelic subcultures, and other engaged and subcultural trends around the globe"--

About the author

Elliott H. King is Associate Professor of Art History at Washington and Lee University and the author of Salvador Dalí: The Late Work and Dalí, Surrealism, and Cinema. He is a founding board member of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism.

Summary

A collection of essays examining surrealism’s cultural adaptations and genealogical descendants from the 1960s through the late 1980s. Explores surrealism’s interactions with radical politics, protest movements, the sexual revolution, psychedelic subcultures, and other engaged and subcultural trends around the globe.

Product details

• Assisted by: Elliott H. (Washington and Lee University) King (Editor), King Elliott H. (Editor), Abigail Susik (Editor), Abigail (Willamette University) Susik (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.03.2022
• EAN: 9780271091358
• ISBN: 978-0-271-09135-8
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 241 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Series: Refiguring Modernism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / General, ART / Art & Politics, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / Conceptual, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Surrealism, History of Art, Art & Design Styles: Surrealism & Dada