| Description |
vii, 261 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-256) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Surrealism -- Spain.
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Art -- Political aspects -- Spain -- History -- 20th century.
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Surrealism -- France.
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Art -- Political aspects -- France -- History -- 20th century.
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Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Art and the war.
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| ISBN |
0300112955 alkaline paper |
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9780300112955 alkaline paper |
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