Surrealism : desire unbound

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The surrealist leader André Breton described desire as the "only master that man must recognize." One of surrealism's defining themes, desire was expressed variously in Dali's charged landscapes, Miró's lyric abstractions, and Bellmer's unsettling nudes. Influenced by Freud, the surrealists saw sexual desire as a path to self-knowledge--"a theatre of provocations and prohibitions in which life's most profound urges confront one another."

Published to accompany a major transatlantic exhibition of international surrealism, this lavishly illustrated catalogue explores desire in surrealist art in both words and images. Key works by such artists as Duchamp, Magritte, Ernst, Dali, de Chirico, Giacometti, Bellmer, Oppenheim, and Cahun are illustrated and discussed, as are surrealist films and photographs by Man Ray, Brassaï, and others. The volume also features some of the rare and beautiful books produced by the surrealists in their celebration of love, as well as a selection of fascinating manuscripts, letters, and documentary photographs that reveal the personal contexts of the group's exploration of desire. Essays by leading scholars show how the theme of desire was implicated in almost all aspects of surrealist activity--not only its art and writings, but also its political struggles and its ethical stances on issues involving individual liberty and the social control of sexuality.

This attractive and provocative volume illustrates a vision of desire that embraces both sublime exaltation and dark carnality. It shows the unprecedented intensity with which the surrealists extolled love and the extent to which they depicted desire as implicated in every thought, action, event, and encounter. A major contribution to surrealist studies, this volume is edited by Jennifer Mundy, and has contributions from Dawn Ades, Katharine Conley, Neil Cox, Carolyn J. Dean, Hal Foster, Vincent Gille, Jean-Michel Goutier, David Hopkins, Radovan Ivsic, Julia Kelly, Annie Le Brun, David Lomas, and Alyce Mahon.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE:

Tate Modern, London

September 20, 2001-January 1, 2002

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

February 6, 2002-May 12, 2002

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A handsome companion to an exhibit at the Tate Gallery (London, 2001) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2002), this well-crafted book comprises a rich lore of 300 illustrations, many not published previously, and 12 essays (by as many contributors) devoted to the many aspects of surrealist desire. Since the notion of desire is central to surrealism, this volume is overdue and most welcome. One could fault the editor for not giving the original (French, Spanish, German, etc.) language of the many texts and passages quoted, but that is a minor quibble. The book addresses desire in its broadest, Freudian sense, as the driving life force, both physical and spiritual--although clearly the sexual predominates. The surrealist definition of desire encompasses the notions of liberation from the constraints of the bourgeois order and the wholly unfettered expression of the imagination. A variety of presentations and explanations of events, artists, works, and particular manifestations of surrealism provide useful background and detail, thus usefully complementing the annotated essays. A comprehensive index concludes the volume. Recommended for academic libraries serving graduate students through faculty and for all persons interested in 20th-century art, literature, and culture. J.-P. Cauvin University of Texas at Austin

Foreword	p. 7
Acknowledgements	p. 8
Chapter 1 Letters of Desire	p. 10
Chapter 2 The Omnipotence of Desire: Surrealism, Psychoanalysis and Hysteria	p. 55
Chapter 3 'Priere de Froler': The Touch in Surrealism	p. 79
Chapter 4 Anamorphic Love: the Surrealist Poetry of Desire	p. 101
Chapter 5 Books of Love - Love Books	p. 125
Chapter 6 Lives and Loves	p. 136
Chapter 7 Surrealism, Male-Female	p. 171
Chapter 8 Violation and Veiling in Surrealist Photography: Woman as Fetish, as Shattered Object, as Phallus	p. 203
Chapter 9 History, Pornography and the Social Body	p. 227
Chapter 10 Critique of Pure Desire, or When the Surrealists were Right	p. 245
Chapter 11 Staging Desire	p. 277
Chapter 12 Desire - A Surrealist 'Invention'	p. 299
Notes	p. 315
List of Exhibited Works	p. 326
Index	p. 340

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