Compulsive Beauty

by Hal Foster

Book Overview

In Compulsive Beauty, Foster reads surrealism from its other, darker side: as an art given over to the uncanny, to the compulsion to repeat and the drive toward death.

Surrealism has long been seen as its founder, Andr Breton, wanted it to be seen: as a movement of love and liberation. In Compulsive Beauty, Foster reads surrealism from its other, darker side: as an art given over to the uncanny, to the compulsion to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026256081X
• ISBN13: 9780262560818
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher