Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War / Robin Adèle Greeley.
2006
N7108.5.S87 G74 2006 (Mapit)
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Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War / Robin Adèle Greeley.
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ISBN
0300112955 (alk. paper)
9780300112955 (alk. paper)
9780300112955 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2006.
Language
English
Description
vii, 261 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Call Number
N7108.5.S87 G74 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification
709.46/09043
Summary
"How might artistic practice offer unique insight into the cataclysmic debacle of war? Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War plumbs this provocative question through an ambitious account of a pivotal period in European cultural history. A new approach to the subject of artists' responses to war, it articulates the relation between artistic endeavor and politics during periods of social crisis. By scrutinizing the widely varying responses to the Spanish Civil War in the work of Miro, Dali, Caballero, Masson, and Picasso, this book investigates Surrealism's efforts to bridge the divide between political thought and political act."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256) and index.
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Table of Contents
Pictures and battefields
Nationalism, civil war, and painting: Joan Miró and political agency in the pictorial realm
Dalí, fascism, and the "ruin of Surrealism"
Surrealism's public awakening in Spain: politics and pictures in Republican and Fascist Spain
The Barcelona Acépale: Spain and the politics of violence in the work of André Masson
The body as political metaphor: Picasso and the performance of Guernica
Of apples and guns.
Nationalism, civil war, and painting: Joan Miró and political agency in the pictorial realm
Dalí, fascism, and the "ruin of Surrealism"
Surrealism's public awakening in Spain: politics and pictures in Republican and Fascist Spain
The Barcelona Acépale: Spain and the politics of violence in the work of André Masson
The body as political metaphor: Picasso and the performance of Guernica
Of apples and guns.