Surrealist Art and Writing, 1919-1939: The Gold of Time

by Jack J. Spector

Book Overview

Surrealist Art and Writing, 1919-1939 offers a fresh analysis of Surrealism--of the artists Dal , Ernst, Masson and Tanguy and the writing of Surrealism's leaders--Andr Breton, Aragon and Eluard. Spector uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine how the ideas and images of this avant-garde movement grew up in anipathy to middle class values. He situates the concrete products of Surrealist art and writing in their historical context without losing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521657393
• ISBN13: 9780521657396
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.9"