| The Rise of Surrealism: Cubism, Dada, and the Pursuit of the Marvelous Contributor(s): Bohn, Willard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791451607 ISBN-13: 9780791451601 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - General - Art | History - General - Art | European |
| Dewey: 709.040 |
| LCCN: 2001049329 |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.9" W x 8.96" (0.78 lbs) 260 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In The Rise of Surrealism, Willard Bohn examines the various literary and artistic developments that prepared the way for the international Surrealist movement--including Cubism, Metaphysical Art, and Dada--as well as the triumph of Surrealism itself. In an analysis that spans the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, Bohn surveys writers and artists from France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, and the United States, examining both their aversion to mimesis and the solutions they devised to replace it. Much of the book is concerned with competing artistic models and with different strategies for creating avant-garde works, and focuses on such figures as Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Weber, Marius de Zayas, Francis Picabia, Giorgio de Chirico, Andr Breton, J. V. Foix, and Joan Mir . The dynamics of the imagery that painters and poets chose to employ and the new roles this imagery assumed in their compositions are also discussed. |