Linda Steer

Appropriated Photographs in French Surrealist Periodicals, 1924-1939

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Produktbeschreibung

The first monograph to analyze the Surrealist gesture of photographic appropriation, this study examines "found" photographs in three French Surrealist reviews published in the 1920s and 1930s: La Revolution surrealiste, edited by Andre Breton; Documents, edited by Georges Bataille; and Minotaure, edited by Breton and others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9781032097770
• ISBN-10: 1032097779
• Artikelnr.: 62152598

Autorenporträt

Linda Steer is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts, Brock University, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents:
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: surrealism's photographic unconscious
2 Picturing hysteria in La Révolution surréaliste: from pathology to
ecstasy
3 Ethnography's photographic unconscious in Documents: savagery in
civilization/civilization in savagery
4 Aesthetics and horror: forensic photography in Minotaure
5 From the marvelous to the monstrous: photography and the past
6 Epilogue: the legacy of surrealist photographic appropriation
Bibliography
Index