154 Pages
20 Color & 37 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
154 Pages
20 Color & 37 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Focusing on the period of the Second World War, this book explores the emergence of surrealist landscape as a genre throughout the period of surrealist exile in the Americas.
By positioning surrealist landscape within the formal, iconographic, and theoretical strategies of the larger movement as well as within the historical context of war and exile, the volume encompasses critical and... Read more
Introduction 1. Surrealist Landscape as a Genre, No Man’s Land 2. Surrealist Landscape between the Wars: Nature Devouring 3. Romantic Transplants: Surrealist Landscape in the Americas in the 1940s 4. The Dangerous Deserts of Dorothea Tanning and Kay Sage 5. Camouflage and World War II 6. Surrealism in the Desert
Biography
Samantha Kavky is Associate Professor of Art History at Penn State Berks, USA.
