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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2006]
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "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 war, it articulates the relation between artistic endeavor and politics during periods of social crisis. By scrutinizing the widely varying responses to the Spanish Civil War in the work of Miro, Dali, Caballero, Masson, and Picasso, this book investigates Surrealism's efforts to bridge the divide between political thought and political act."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 261 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-256) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0300112955 9780300112955 |