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Surrealist Art and Thought in the 1930'S

Surrealist Art and Thought in the 1930'S Art, Politics, and the Psyche

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Publisher's Synopsis

Surrealist Art and Thought in the 1930s examines the intersection of Hegelian aesthetics, experimental art and poetry, Marxism and psychoanalysis in the theory and practice of the Surrealist movement. Locating Surrealist art and thought between modernist art and revolutionary politics, Steven Harris investigates the consequences of the Surrealists' efforts to synthesize these diverse concerns, through the invention, in 1931, of the object and in the recasting of their activities as a mode of revolutionary science. Providing a context for the cultural and political debates in France and the Soviet Union during the 1930s, he also analyzes the debate on proletarian literature, the Surrealists' reaction to the Popular Front, and their eventual defense of an experimental modern art following their break with the French Communist Party in 1935.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780521823876
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 709.04063
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 328
Weight: 932g
Height: 252mm
Width: 181mm
Spine width: 23mm