Surrealism and the Visual Arts: Theory and Reception
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Book
Description
This 2005 study traces the development of Surrealist theory of visual art and its reception, from the birth of Surrealism to its institutionalization in the mid-1930s. Situating Surrealist art theory in its theoretical and discursive contexts, Kim Grant demonstrates the complex interplay between Surrealism and contemporary art criticism. She examines the challenge to Surrealist art raised by the magazine Cahiers d'Art, which promoted a group of young painters dedicated to a liberated and poetic painting process that was in keeping with the formalist evolution of modern art. Grant also discusses the centrality of visual art in Surrealism as a material manifestation of poetry, the significance of poetry in French theories of modern art, and the difficulties faced by an avant-garde art movement at a time when contemporary audiences had come to expect revolutionary innovation.
ISBN
9780521836555
Publication Date
2005
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
City
New York, NY
Keywords
surrealism, art, modern art, art criticism, 20th century, France, ut pictura poesis, aesthetics, Cahiers d'Art
Disciplines
Art and Design | Art Practice | Arts and Humanities | Fine Arts | French and Francophone Language and Literature | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Sociology
Recommended Citation
Grant, Kim. Surrealism and the Visual Arts: Theory and Reception. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
