Twilight visions : surrealism and Paris
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Twilight visions : surrealism and Paris
University of California Press, c2009
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
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Exhibition catalog
"This book is the companion to the exhibition Twilight visions : surrealism, photography, and Paris, curated by Therese Lichtenstein and organized by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts"--T.p. verso
"First Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, September 10, 2009-January 3, 2010, International Center of Photography, New York, New York, January 29-May 9, 2010, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, June 9-October 10, 2010"--T.p. verso
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Through an examination of surrealist photographs, objects, exhibitions, activities, and writings, the essays in "Twilight Visions", the beautifully illustrated companion volume to the exhibition of the same name, portray the French capital as a city in the process of metamorphosis-in a kind of twilight state. The Bureau of Surrealist Research, the major Surrealist exhibitions, and the photographs of Paris by Brassai, Andre Kertesz, Ilse Bing, Germaine Krull, and Man Ray, among others, all reflect the tumultuous social and cultural transformations occurring in Paris in the 1920s and 30s. Juxtaposing the strange with the familiar, they seek to break down repressive hierarchies. At the same time, they represent a desire to change the world through experimental activities. Introduced by Therese Lichtenstein, with essays by Therese Lichtenstein, Julia Kelly, Colin Jones, and Whitney Chadwick, this absorbing volume considers the social, aesthetic, and political stances of the Surrealists as they probed hidden aspects of the commonplace and blurred the boundaries between dreams and reality, subjectivity and objectivity. This title is co published by Frist Center for the Visual Arts.
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