How the notorious author of The 120 Days of Sodom inspired the
surrealists and other avant-garde artists, writers, and filmmakers
The writings of the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) present a libertine
philosophy of sexual excess and human suffering that refuses to
make any concession to law, religion, or public decency. In this
groundbreaking cultural history, Alyce Mahon traces how artists of
the twentieth century turned to Sade to explore political, sexual,
and psychological terror, adapting his imagery of the excessively
sexual and terrorized body as a means of liberation from systems of
power. Mahon shows how avant-garde artists, writers, dramatists,
and filmmakers drew on Sade's "philosophy in the bedroom" to
challenge oppressive regimes and their restrictive codes and
conventions of gender and sexuality. She provides close analyses of
early illustrated editions of Sade's works and looks at drawings,
paintings, and photographs by leading surrealists such as Andre
Masson, Leonor Fini, and Man Ray. She explains how Sade's ideas
were reflected in the writings of Guillaume Apollinaire and the
fiction of Anne Desclos, who wrote her erotic novel, Story of O, as
a love letter to critic Jean Paulhan, an admirer of Sade. Mahon
explores how Sade influenced the happenings of Jean-Jacques Lebel,
the theater of Peter Brook, the cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini, and
the multimedia art of Paul Chan. She also discusses responses to
Sade by feminist theorists such as Simone de Beauvoir, Susan
Sontag, and Angela Carter. Beautifully illustrated, The Marquis de
Sade and the Avant-Garde demonstrates that Sade inspired
generations of artists to imagine new utopian visions of living,
push the boundaries of the body and the body politic, and portray
the unthinkable in their art.
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