Download e-book for kindle: Mad Muses and the Early Surrealists by Justin Vicari

By Justin Vicari

The early surrealists tried to create paintings without delay from the subconscious, however the ensuing artwork usually finds the stamp of its age. it's commonly authorised convinced macho sensibility prevailed in the flow, with the exception of queer sensibilities and decreasing ladies to item prestige. In startling new readings of Breton, Bataille, Cocteau, Artaud, Crevel and others, Justin Vicari examines the intersections among surrealism and psychological affliction, deploying an interdisciplinary method, together with aesthetic idea, radical politics, and psychoanalysis. Of specific curiosity is the illustration of the appropriate lady as not just sexually on hand yet mentally ailing, a hysteric muse representing a type of “authenticity” misplaced in glossy life.

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