This introductory survey traces the origins and development of two revolutionary 20th-century art movements: Dada and Surrealism. It explores the full range of artistic production, including film, photography and painting. The art is situated within a context of ideas. Against the background of the slaughter of World War I, the Dadas embarked upon a total reconsideration of nat...(展开全部)

This introductory survey traces the origins and development of two revolutionary 20th-century art movements: Dada and Surrealism. It explores the full range of artistic production, including film, photography and painting. The art is situated within a context of ideas. Against the background of the slaughter of World War I, the Dadas embarked upon a total reconsideration of nat...(展开全部)

The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art, with its obsession with sexuality, fetishism, and shock tactics. In this new treatment of the subject, Hopkins focuses on the many debates surrounding these movements: the Marquis de Sade's Surrealist deification, issues of quality (How good i...(展开全部)

超现实主义是法国诗人André Breton于1924年发起的一场文学和艺术运动，到他1966年去世时，这场运动已经成为20世纪最受欢迎的艺术运动之一。作为“怪诞”的近义词，超现实主义这个名字已经成为日常使用的一个词。本书对这场运动中的关键人物、他们的作品和如何找到他们作了容易理解的介绍，带领读者踏上了一段穿越超现实主义历史的旅程。Art Essentials系列的这本新书包含一份关键术语和年标的词汇表，为有兴趣了解这一*影响力的艺术现象的人提供了不可或缺的资源。Surrealism was launched as a literary and artistic movement by French poet André Breton in 1924, and by the time of his death in 1966 had become o...(展开全部)

In Surrealism at Play Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy. For surrealist artists, play took a consistent role in their aesthetic as they worked in, with, and against a post-World War I world increasingly dominated by technology and functionalism. Whether through exquisite-corpse drawi...(展开全部)

Presents the essential ideas of the founder of French surrealism

内容 致谢/ix 导论：法语中的黑格尔和苦恼意识/1 1. 人类学转向/9 2. 泛-悲剧主义/19 3. 存在主义的抗辩：瓦尔和冯达纳/33 4. 否定性的使用：布勒东和列斐弗尔/53 5. 巴塔耶：失业的否定性/71 6. 萨特哲学中的苦恼意识/93 7. 苦恼意识的持存：德里达/119 8. 超越黑格尔？德勒兹，福柯与新经验主义/147 结论：苦恼意识的法国事业/175 注释/179 参考书目选录/217 索引/235

This is the first book to survey the life and work of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (born 1917). Carrington burst onto the Surrealist scene in 1936, when, as a precocious nineteen-year-old debutante, she escaped the stultifying demands of her wealthy English family by running away to Paris with her lover Max Ernst. She was immediately championed by Andre Breton, who resp...(展开全部)

"The Edge of Surrealism" is an essential introduction to the writing of French social theorist Roger Caillois (1913-1978). Though his subjects were diverse, Caillois focused on issues crucial to modern intellectual life, and his essays offer a unique perspective on many of twentieth-century France's most significant intellectual movements and figures. Including a masterful intr...(展开全部)

Zoological Surrealism draws from French scientific and nature filmmaker Jean Painlevé’s early oeuvre to rethink the entangled histories of cinema, Surrealism, and scientific research in interwar France. Delving deeply into Painlevé’s archive, James Leo Cahill develops an account of “cinema’s Copernican vocation”—how it was used to forge new scientific discoveries while also dis...(展开全部)