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Surrealism

Desire Unbound

Surrealism( )
Editor: Mundy, Jennifer
ISBN:978-0-691-09064-1
Publication Date:Dec 2001
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $175.00
Book Description:

The surrealist leader André 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, Miró'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...
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Book Details
Pages:352
Detailed Subjects: Art / History / Modern (Late 19Th Century To 1945)
Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):24.13 x 27.305 cm
Book Weight:2.131 Kilograms



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