1st Edition
Appropriated Photographs in French Surrealist Periodicals, 1924-1939
By Linda Steer
Copyright 2017
192 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
192 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
The first monograph to analyze the Surrealist gesture of photographic appropriation, this study examines "found" photographs in three French Surrealist reviews published in the 1920s and 1930s: La Révolution surréaliste, edited by André Breton; Documents, edited by Georges Bataille; and Minotaure, edited by Breton and others. The book asks general questions about the production and deployment of... Read more
Contents:
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: surrealism’s photographic unconscious
2 Picturing hysteria in La Révolution surréaliste: from pathology to ecstasy
3 Ethnography’s photographic unconscious in Documents: savagery in civilization/civilization in savagery
4 Aesthetics and horror: forensic photography in Minotaure
5 From the marvelous to the monstrous: photography and the past
6 Epilogue: the legacy of surrealist photographic appropriation
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Linda Steer is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts, Brock University, Canada.
