Surrealist Art and Thought in the 1930s: Art, Politics, and the Psyche

Steven Harris (University of Alberta)

Surrealist Art and Thought in the 1930s: Art, Politics, and the Psyche
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
26 January 2004
Pages
342
ISBN
9780521823876

Surrealist Art and Thought in the 1930s: Art, Politics, and the Psyche

Steven Harris (University of Alberta)

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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