Surrealist Art and Thought in the 1930s: Art, Politics, and the Psyche

by Steven Harris

This volume examines the intersection of Hegelian aesthetics, experimental art and poetry, Marxism and psychoanalysis in the development of the theory and practice of the Surrealist movement. Steven Harris analyzes the consequences of the Surrealists' efforts to synthesize their diverse concerns through the invention, in 1931, of the object and the redefining of their activities as a type of revolutionary science. He also analyzes the debate on proletarian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521823870
• ISBN13: 9780521823876
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 9.8"