Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War / Robin Adèle Greeley.
"How might artistic practice offer unique insight into the cataclysmic debacle of war? Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War plumbs this provocative question through an ambitious account of a pivotal period in European cultural history. A new approach to the subject of artists' responses to...
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New Haven :
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[2006]
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Table of Contents:
- I. Pictures and battlefields
- II. Nationalism, Civil War, and painting : Joan Miro and political agency in the pictorial realm
- III. Dali, fascism, and the "ruin of surrealism"
- IV. Surrealism's public awakening in Spain : politics and pictures in republican and fascist Spain
- V. The Barcelona Acepale : Spain and the politics of violence in the work of Andre Masson
- VI. The body as political metaphor : Picasso and the performance of Guernica
- VII. Of apples and guns.