1st Edition
Found Sculpture and Photography from Surrealism to Contemporary Art
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
Taking its departure point from the 1933 surrealist photographs of ’involuntary sculptures’ by Brassaï and Dalí, Found Sculpture and Photography from Surrealism to Contemporary Art offers fresh perspectives on the sculptural object by relating it to both surrealist concerns with chance and the crucial role of photography in framing the everyday. This collection of essays questions the nature of... Read more
Contents: Introduction: involuntary sculpture: process, photography and the ephemeral object, Anna Dezeuze and Julia Kelly; Voluntary and involuntary sculpture, Steven Harris; The found, the made and the functional: surrealism, objects and sculpture, Julia Kelly; Close-up on the object: attending to the films of Man Ray, Samantha Lackey; Kaprow’s vector, Martha Buskirk; Richard Wentworth’s Making Do, Getting By and the elusive everyday, Anna Dezeuze; In formation: on Terry Fox’s Children’s Tapes, Carrie Lambert-Beatty; Documents, dreams and fantasies: passages through the involuntary from photography to sculpture in the work of Mike Kelley, John C. Welchman; Chance/lens (subversive translation), Simon Baker; Involuntary photography, Margaret Iversen; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Anna Dezeuze is Lecturer in Art History at the Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Design Marseille-Méditerranée in Marseilles, France.
Julia Kelly is a researcher at the University of Hull, UK.
'... this nuanced and thoughtful collection offers an engaging account of surrealism as a rich and important vein of twentieth-century photographic and sculptural practice.' Modernism-Modernity
