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Mad muses and the early surrealists

By Justin , Vicari

Book information

Publisher
McFarland & Co
Year
2012
ISBN
0786466561, 978-0-7864-6656-6
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11505080 bytes)
Pages
224\233
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
French literature -- 20th century -- History and c

Description

The early surrealists attempted to create art directly from the unconscious, but the resulting art often reveals the stamp of its age. It is generally accepted that a certain macho sensibility prevailed within the movement, excluding queer sensibilities and reducing women to object status. In startling new readings of Breton, Bataille, Cocteau, Artaud, Crevel and others, Justin Vicari examines the intersections between surrealism and mental illness, deploying an interdisciplinary approach, which includes aesthetic theory, radical politics, and psychoanalysis. Of particular interest is the representation of the ideal woman as not only sexually available but mentally ill, a hysteric muse representing a kind of "authenticity" lost in modern life

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