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Mad Muses and the Early Surrealists

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The early surrealists attempted to create art directly from the unconscious, but the resulting art often reveals the stamp of its age. It is generally accepted that a certain macho sensibility prevailed within the movement, excluding queer sensibilities and reducing women to object status. In startling new readings of Breton, Bataille, Cocteau, Artaud, Crevel and others, Justin Vicari examines the intersections between surrealism and mental illness, deploying an interdisciplinary approach, which includes aesthetic theory, radical politics, and psychoanalysis. Of particular interest is the representation of the ideal woman as not only sexually available but mentally ill, a hysteric muse representing a kind of authenticity lost in modern life.

Language: English

Pages: 224

Format: Paperback

Publisher: McFarland & Company

Release: October 26, 2011

ISBN: 0786466561

ISBN 13: 9780786466566

Mad Muses and the Early Surrealists

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The early surrealists attempted to create art directly from the unconscious, but the resulting art often reveals the stamp of its age. It is generally accepted that a certain macho sensibility prevailed within the movement, excluding queer sensibilities and reducing women to object status. In startling new readings of Breton, Bataille, Cocteau, Artaud, Crevel and others, Justin Vicari examines the intersections between surrealism and mental illness, deploying an interdisciplinary approach, which includes aesthetic theory, radical politics, and psychoanalysis. Of particular interest is the representation of the ideal woman as not only sexually available but mentally ill, a hysteric muse representing a kind of authenticity lost in modern life.

Language: English

Pages: 224

Format: Paperback

Publisher: McFarland & Company

Release: October 26, 2011

ISBN: 0786466561

ISBN 13: 9780786466566

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