Surrealist Masculinities: Gender Anxiety and the Aesthetics of Post-World War I Reconstruction in France

by Amy Lyford

Surrealist Masculinities offers a fresh exploration of how surrealist visual production was shaped by constructions of gender and sexuality, particularly masculinity, in the 1920s and early 1930s. Amy Lyford builds on feminist critical approaches to surrealism, which have viewed the female body in surrealism as symptomatic of male misogyny; yet she also departs from such work by arguing that representations of an anxious, ambivalent, or perverse...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520246403
• ISBN13: 9780520246409
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.1" x 9.1"