Lorca, Bun̋uel, Dalí [electronic resource] : forbidden pleasures and connected lives / Gwynne Edwards.
Edwards, Gwynne.
2009
N7112 .E39 2009eb
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Title Lorca, Bun̋uel, Dalí [electronic resource] : forbidden pleasures and connected lives / Gwynne Edwards.
Author Edwards, Gwynne.
ISBN 9780857714480 (electronic bk.)
9781848850071
1848850077
Imprint London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (248 p.) : ill.
Call Number N7112 .E39 2009eb
Summary They were born within six years of each other and, as Gwynne Edwards reveals, their childhood circumstances were very similar. Each was affected by a narrow-minded society and an intolerant religious background which equated sex with sin and led all three to experience sexual problems of different kinds: Lorca, the guilt and anguish associated with his homosexuality; Buñuel, feelings of sexual inhibition; and Dalí, virtual impotence. Having met during the 1920s at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, they developed intense personal relationships and channeled their respective obsessions into the cultural forms then prevalent in Europe, in particular Surrealism. Rooted in emotional turmoil, their work--from Lorca's dramatic characters in search of sexual fulfillment, to Buñuel's frustrated men and women, and Dalí's potent images of shame and guilt--is highly autobiographical. Their left-wing outrage directed at bourgeois values and the Catholic Church was strongly felt, and in the case of Lorca in particular, was sharpened by the catastrophic Civil War of 1936-9, during the first months of which he was murdered by Franco's fascists. The war hastened Buñuel's departure to France and Mexico and Dalí's to New York. Edwards describes how, for the rest of his life, Buñuel clung to his left-wing ideals and made outstanding films, while the increasingly eccentric and money-obsessed Dalí embraced Fascism and the Catholic Church, and saw his art go into rapid decline.
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Childhood
Adolescence
The Residencia de Estudiantes
Changing partners
Surrealism
Politics and sex
Descent into chaos
The outbreak of war
After Lorca.

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