| Please Touch: Dada and Surrealist Objects After the Readymade Contributor(s): Mileaf, Janine (Author) |
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ISBN: 1584659343 ISBN-13: 9781584659341 Publisher: Dartmouth College Press OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) |
| Dewey: 709.040 |
| LCCN: 2010017506 |
| Series: Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.3" W x 9.18" (1.12 lbs) 312 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Touch suggests a broad range of physical, intellectual, and emotional connections that serve to undermine the dominance of vision in histories of modernism. By exploding notions of the very nature of art, the artists considered in this beautifully illustrated monograph introduced fundamentally new conceptions of subjectivity and engagement for the modernist era. While offering an entertaining and engaging history of dada and surrealism, Please Touch presents a persuasive argument highlighting the role of "tactility," which it defines as a decentralized, fragmented, and intimate form of knowing. In this compelling volume, Janine Mileaf offers the first full-length consideration of Marcel Duchamp's readymades and their profound legacy in the transatlantic context of dada and surrealism. This book embraces a broad range of art objects: consumer items such as the urinal and bottlerack that Duchamp "sneaked" into art exhibits; flea-market assemblages fabricated by his interwar avant-garde successors Man Ray, Andr Breton, Salvador Dal , Meret Oppenheim, and others; and the bricolage boxes of American surrealist Joseph Cornell. Please Touch is an intriguing exploration of some of the twentieth century's most important art and artists that will appeal to a broad range of art historians and interdisciplinary scholars. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mileaf, Janine: - Janine Mileaf is executive director of the Arts Club of Chicago and the author of Please Touch: Dada and Surrealist Objects After the Readymade. |