Displaying the Marvelous: Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, and Surrealist Exhibition

by Lewis Kachur

Surrealism in its late phase often abandoned neutral exhibition spaces in favour of environments that embodied subjective ideologies. These exhibitions offered startled viewers an early version of installation art before the form existed as such. In Displaying the Marvelous, Lewis Kachur explores this development by analyzing three elaborate Surrealist installations created between 1938 and 1942. The first two, the Exposition Internationale du Surr...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262112566
• ISBN13: 9780262112567
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 9.3"