eShop USA > Books > Surrealist Masculinities: Gender Anxiety and the Aesthetics of Post-World War I Reconstruction in France
Surrealist Masculinities: Gender Anxiety and the Aesthetics of Post-World War I Reconstruction in France
Our Price: $52.00 Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 709.04063
EAN: 9780520246409
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0520246403
Label: University of California Press
Manufacturer: University of California Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 251
Publication Date: July 05, 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Studio: University of California Press
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Surrealist Masculinities offers a fresh exploration of how surrealist visual production was shaped by constructions of gender and sexuality, particularly masculinity, in the 1920s and early 1930s. Amy Lyford builds on feminist critical approaches to surrealism, which have viewed the female body in surrealism as symptomatic of male misogyny; yet she also departs from such work by arguing that representations of an anxious, ambivalent, or perverse masculinity were integral to the movement's critique of France's "return to order" in the years following World War I. This book analyzes surrealist work in relation to the history of surrealism and investigates how surrealist artists and writers appropriated contemporary medical science, advertising, and sexology in their quest to undermine the status quo.
Related Categories:
| |
 |
