Photography and Surrealism

Sexuality, Colonialism and Social Dissent

David Bate (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2011
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-86064-378-1 (ISBN)

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The aim of this book is to re-evaluate the status and usage of the photographic image in historical Surrealism, seeking to locate the use of photography by Surrealists within the cultural discourses of that historical moment.

David Bate examines automatism and the photographic image, the Surrealist passion for insanity, ambivalent use of Orientalism, use of Sadean philosophy and the effect of fascism of the Surrealists. The book is illustrated wtih a wide range of surrealist photographs.

David Bate is Course Leader in MA Photographic Studies & Senior Lecturer in Photography Theory, University of Westminster, London.

What is a Surrealist photograph?; the automatic image; sadness and sanity; the oriental signifier; the Sadean eye; black object, white subject; the truth of the colonies; fascism and exile.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.1.2011
Zusatzinfo	30 b&w illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	726 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-86064-378-7 / 1860643787
ISBN-13	978-1-86064-378-1 / 9781860643781
Zustand	Neuware