Surrealism : desire unbound
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Surrealism : desire unbound
Princeton University Press, c2001
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Exhibition catalogue
Includes bibliographical references and index
"... exhibition Tate Modern, London, 20 September 2001- 1 January 2002, and touring to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 6 February - 12 May 2002"--T.p.verso
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Description
The surrealist leader Andre Breton described desire as the "only master that man must recognize." One of surrealism's defining themes, desire was expressed variously in Dali's charged landscapes, Miro's lyric abstractions, and Bellmer's unsettling nudes. Influenced by Freud, the surrealists saw sexual desire as a path to self-knowledge--"a theatre of provocations and prohibitions in which life's most profound urges confront one another." Published to accompany a major transatlantic exhibition of international surrealism, this lavishly illustrated catalogue explores desire in surrealist art in both words and images. Key works by such artists as Duchamp, Magritte, Ernst, Dali, de Chirico, Giacometti, Bellmer, Oppenheim, and Cahun are illustrated and discussed, as are surrealist films and photographs by Man Ray, Brassai, and others. The volume also features some of the rare and beautiful books produced by the surrealists in their celebration of love, as well as a selection of fascinating manuscripts, letters, and documentary photographs that reveal the personal contexts of the group's exploration of desire.
Essays by leading scholars show how the theme of desire was implicated in almost all aspects of surrealist activity--not only its art and writings, but also its political struggles and its ethical stances on issues involving individual liberty and the social control of sexuality. This attractive and provocative volume illustrates a vision of desire that embraces both sublime exaltation and dark carnality. It shows the unprecedented intensity with which the surrealists extolled love and the extent to which they depicted desire as implicated in every thought, action, event, and encounter. A major contribution to surrealist studies, this volume is edited by Jennifer Mundy, and has contributions from Dawn Ades, Katharine Conley, Neil Cox, Carolyn J. Dean, Hal Foster, Vincent Gille, Jean-Michel Goutier, David Hopkins, Radovan Ivsic, Julia Kelly, Annie Le Brun, David Lomas, and Alyce Mahon. EXHIBITION SCHEDULE Tate Modern, London September 20, 2001-January 1, 2002 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York February 6, 2002-May 12, 2002
Table of Contents
Foreword 7 Acknowledgments 8 Chapter One: LETTERS OF DESIRE by Jennifer Mundy 10 Chapter Two: THE OMNIPOTENCE OF DESIRE: SURREALISM, PSYCHOANALYSIS AND HYSTERIA by David Lomas 55 Chapter Three: "PRIERE DE FROLER": THE TOUCH IN SURREALISM by Julia Kelly 79 Chapter Four: ANAMORPHIC LOVE: THE SURREALIST POETRY OF DESIRE by Katharine Conley 101 Chapter Five: BOOKS OF LOVE--LOVE BOOKS by Vincent Gille 125 Chapter Six: LIVES AND LOVES by Vincent Gille 136 Chapter Seven: SURREALISM, MALE-FEMALE by Dawn Ades 171 Chapter Eight: VIOLATION AND VEILING IN SURREALIST PHOTOGRAPHY: WOMAN AS FETISH, AS SHATTERED OBJECT, AS PHALLUS by Hal Foster 203 Chapter Nine: HISTORY, PORNOGRAPHY AND THE SOCIAL BODY by Carolyn J. Dean 227 Chapter Ten: CRITIQUE OF PURE DESIRE, OR WHEN THE SURREALISTS WERE RIGHT by Neil Cox 245 Chapter Eleven: STAGING DESIRE by Alyce Mahon 277 Chapter Twelve: DESIRE--A SURREALIST "INVENTION" by Annie Le Brun 299 Notes 315 List of Exhibted Works 326 Index 340
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