Surrealism - Genesis of a Revolution

Informationen zum Autor Megan McShane is an art historian who received her Ph.D. from Emory University. Specializing in avant-garde European art during the Great Wars, she was a Violence Studies Fellow at Emory, where she received the President's writing award for research on women's issues. She further developed her interest in artists under Vichy at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in Washington, D.C. last year. Klappentext Following the horrors of the First World War, Nathalia Brodskaa tells the tale of the Cabaret Voltaire origins and the post-Dada development of Surrealism, intelligently weaving descriptions of the most important artistic and literary themes and personal portraits of the movement's major players into her narrative. Overall, the text provides a clear view of the aspirations, accomplishments, and failures of this cultural revolution produced during unsettled times.

Product details

• Authors: Nathalia Brodskaa, Nathalia Brodskaia, Megan Mcshane
• Publisher: PARKSTONE PRESS
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2006
• EAN: 9781859950180
• ISBN: 978-1-85995-018-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Temporis; Temporis Collection; Temporis Collection; TEMPORIS
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history