Twilight Visions

出版者:University of California Press

作者:Therese Lichtenstein

页数:224

出版时间:2009-9-30

价格:USD 85.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780520260818

图书标签:PhotographyAvantgarde

Through an examination of surrealist photographs, objects, exhibitions, activities, and writings, the essays in "Twilight Visions", the beautifully illustrated companion volume to the exhibition of the same name, portray the French capital as a city in the process of metamorphosis - in a kind of twilight state. The Bureau of Surrealist Research, the major Surrealist exhibitions, and the photographs of Paris by Brassai, Andre Kertesz, Ilse Bing, Germaine Krull, and Man Ray, among others, all reflect the tumultuous social and cultural transformations occurring in Paris in the 1920s and 30s. Juxtaposing the strange with the familiar, they seek to break down repressive hierarchies. At the same time, they represent a desire to change the world through experimental activities. Introduced by Therese Lichtenstein, with essays by Therese Lichtenstein, Julia Kelly, Colin Jones, and Whitney Chadwick, this absorbing volume considers the social, aesthetic, and political stances of the Surrealists as they probed hidden aspects of the commonplace and blurred the boundaries between dreams and reality, subjectivity and objectivity. It is co published by Frist Center for the Visual Arts.

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tempted to give a 2/5, extremely mediocre and un-enlightening essays on Surrealist photography, city mythologisation etc.

tempted to give a 2/5, extremely mediocre and un-enlightening essays on Surrealist photography, city mythologisation etc.

tempted to give a 2/5, extremely mediocre and un-enlightening essays on Surrealist photography, city mythologisation etc.

tempted to give a 2/5, extremely mediocre and un-enlightening essays on Surrealist photography, city mythologisation etc.

tempted to give a 2/5, extremely mediocre and un-enlightening essays on Surrealist photography, city mythologisation etc.