Surrealist Masculinities - Gender Anxiety and the Aesthetics of Post-World War I Reconstruction in France (Hardcover)

"Surrealist Masculinities "offers a fresh exploration of how surrealist visual production was shaped by constructions of gender and sexuality, particularly masculinity, in the 1920s and early 1930s. Amy Lyford builds on feminist critical approaches to surrealism, which have viewed the female body in surrealism as symptomatic of male misogyny; yet she also departs from such work by arguing that representations of an anxious, ambivalent, or perverse masculinity were integral to the movement's critique of France's "return to order" in the years following World War I. This book analyzes surrealist work in relation to the history of surrealism and investigates how surrealist artists and writers appropriated contemporary medical science, advertising, and sexology in their quest to undermine the status quo.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2007
First published:	2007
Authors:	Amy Lyford
Dimensions:	229 x 178 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	252
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-24640-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, First World War to 1960 > Surrealism & Dada Promotions
LSN:	0-520-24640-3
Barcode:	9780520246409

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