Photography and surrealism : sexuality, colonialism and social dissent
Bate, David, 1956-2004
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Aiming to re-evaluate the status and usage of the photographic image in historical surrealism, this book seeks to locate the use of photography by surrealists within the cultural discourses of that historical moment. As "surreal" images become ever more common through the ease of computer manipulation, the place in history occupied by Surrealism and the Surrealists can easily be lost to sight. This challenging re-evaluation of the status and use of photographic images in historical Surrealism puts Surrealism's fundamental issues back into the framework of its historical purpose and function.;David Bate examines automatism and the photographic image, the Surrealist passion for insanity, ambivalent use of Orientalism, use of Sadean philosophy and the effect of fascism of the Surrealists. The book is illustrated wtih a wide range of surrealist photographs.
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London : I. B. Tauris, 2004.
Collation:
x, 272 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-265) and index.
Contents:
What is a Surrealist photograph?; the automatic image; sadness and sanity; the oriental signifier; the Sadean eye; black object, white subject; the truth of the colonies; fascism and exile.
ISBN:
9781860643798 (pbk)
Dewey class:
709.04063
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English
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BRN:
2708984