Realism, rationalism, surrealism : art between the wars
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Realism, rationalism, surrealism : art between the wars
（Modern art--practices and debates）
Yale University Press, in association with the Open University, 1994
Reprinted with corrections
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book begins by considering responses by French artists to the First World War, showing how Purism, Dada, and early Surrealism are related to the ethos of post-war reconstruction. The authors then discuss the language of construction in places as dissimilar as France, Germany, and the Soviet Union; the contrasting demands of the utility and decoration of objects and paintings; and the relationship of surrealism to questions of sexuality and gender and to Freudian theory. The book concludes by addressing the widespread debate over realism in art: whether it represents an alternative to the elitism of the avant-garde or whether avant-garde art should play a role in the development of a modern realism.
Table of Contents
Part 1 'This liberty and this order'- Art in France after the First World War, David Batchelor: Naturalism, Classicism, the School of Paris Groups, magazines, programmes Purism and L'Esprit Nouveau Dada From Literature to La Revolution Surrealiste Common grounds Contested space References. Part 2 The language of construction by Briony Fer: Russian Constructivism The language of construction and the construction of language Disembodied form - construction and the gendered self Standards of efficiency Luxury, utility and the decorative Rationalization and ritual Conclusion References. Part 3 Surrealism, Myth and Psychoanalysis by Briony Fer: Surrealism and difference Breton's Nadja the 'uncanny' Breton and Bataille The role of psychic disorder in the Surrealist aesthetic Objects of desire Muse/artist Beginnings, again References. Part 4 Realisms and Realities by Paul Wood: Realism in the 1930S Soviet Russia Weimar Germany Towards Socialist Realism Counter-conclusion.
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