Surrealism

Desire Unbound
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-691-12336-3
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 229 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1729 g

The surrealist leader André Breton described desire as the "only master that man must recognize." One of surrealism's defining themes, desire was expressed variously in Dali's charged landscapes, Miró's lyric abstractions, and Bellmer's unsettling nudes. Influenced by Freud, the surrealists saw sexual desire as a path to self-knowledge--"a theatre of provocations and prohibitions in which life's most profound urges confront one another."Published to accompany a major transatlantic exhibition of international surrealism, this lavishly illustrated catalogue explores desire in surrealist art in both words and images. Key works by such artists as Duchamp, Magritte, Ernst, Dali, de Chirico, Giacometti, Bellmer, Oppenheim, and Cahun are illustrated and discussed, as are surrealist films and photographs by Man Ray, Brassaï, and others. The volume also features some of the rare and beautiful books produced by the surrealists in their celebration of love, as well as a selection of fascinating manuscripts, letters, and documentary photographs that reveal the personal contexts of the group's exploration of desire. Essays by leading scholars show how the theme of desire was implicated in almost all aspects of surrealist activity--not only its art and writings, but also its political struggles and its ethical stances on issues involving individual liberty and the social control of sexuality.This attractive and provocative volume illustrates a vision of desire that embraces both sublime exaltation and dark carnality. It shows the unprecedented intensity with which the surrealists extolled love and the extent to which they depicted desire as implicated in every thought, action, event, and encounter. A major contribution to surrealist studies, this volume is edited by Jennifer Mundy, and has contributions from Dawn Ades, Katharine Conley, Neil Cox, Carolyn J. Dean, Hal Foster, Vincent Gille, Jean-Michel Goutier, David Hopkins, Radovan Ivsic, Julia Kelly, Annie Le Brun, David Lomas, and Alyce Mahon.EXHIBITION SCHEDULETate Modern, London
September 20, 2001-January 1, 2002The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
February 6, 2002-May 12, 2002

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mundy, Jennifer

Ades, Dawn

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gille, Vincent

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstpsychologie und -soziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Surrealismus, Abstrakter Expressionismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Ausstellungskataloge, Museumsführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword 7

Acknowledgments 8

Chapter One: LETTERS OF DESIRE by Jennifer Mundy 10

Chapter Two: THE OMNIPOTENCE OF DESIRE: SURREALISM, PSYCHOANALYSIS AND HYSTERIA by David Lomas 55

Chapter Three: "PRIERE DE FROLER": THE TOUCH IN SURREALISM by Julia Kelly 79

Chapter Four: ANAMORPHIC LOVE: THE SURREALIST POETRY OF DESIRE by Katharine Conley 101

Chapter Five: BOOKS OF LOVE--LOVE BOOKS by Vincent Gille 125

Chapter Six: LIVES AND LOVES by Vincent Gille 136

Chapter Seven: SURREALISM, MALE-FEMALE by Dawn Ades 171

Chapter Eight: VIOLATION AND VEILING IN SURREALIST PHOTOGRAPHY: WOMAN AS FETISH, AS SHATTERED OBJECT, AS PHALLUS by Hal Foster 203

Chapter Nine: HISTORY, PORNOGRAPHY AND THE SOCIAL BODY by Carolyn J. Dean 227

Chapter Ten: CRITIQUE OF PURE DESIRE, OR WHEN THE SURREALISTS WERE RIGHT by Neil Cox 245

Chapter Eleven: STAGING DESIRE by Alyce Mahon 277

Chapter Twelve: DESIRE--A SURREALIST "INVENTION" by Annie Le Brun 299

Notes 315

List of Exhibted Works 326

Index 340