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Surrealist Art and Writing offers a fresh analysis of Surrealism, the avant-garde movement that, in its search for contemporary lyricism and imagery, united literature and art with politics and psychology. Examining Surrealism's main phases from a variety of perspectives, Jack Spector emphasizes the rebellion of the protagonists against their middle-class education under the Third Republic, a rebellion that later extended beyond their moral, political, and artistic background.
In manifestos and manifestations, the Surrealists promoted Marxist over liberal, politics, Freudian psychoanalysis over French psychiatry, Hegelian dialectics over Cartesian logic, and the outmoded, psychotic, or childish over modernist art. This study offers an overview of the exciting and important interwar period in Europe.
In particular it places avant-garde ideas and imagery within the historical and political contexts of the 1920s and 1930s, integrating them into contemporary artistic and ideological currents.
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Modern Arts, European Arts, Surrealism, Arts, Modern, Arts, European, Surrealism (literature), Art, modern, 20th centuryPlaces
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Surrealist Art and Writing, 1919-1939: The Gold of Time
February 1, 1999, Cambridge University Press
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Surrealist art and writing, 1919-1939: the gold of time
1997, Cambridge University Press
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Surrealist Art and Writing, 19191939: The Gold of Time (Contemporary Artists and their Critics)
November 28, 1996, Cambridge University Press
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1996, Cambridge University Press
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"At first sight the idiosyncrasies of Surrealist art and writing might seem to detach the movement from its own time and place."
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