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female body in surrealism
feminist critical approach to surrealism
gender and sexuality
gender and womens studies
history of surrealism
male misogyny
misogyny
perverse masculinity
post-war reconstruction
return to order
sexology
surrealist artists
surrealist visual production
visual production
world war i
wwi gender issues
Product details
- ISBN 9780520246409
- Weight: 953g
- Dimensions: 178 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jul 2007
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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"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.
Amy Lyford is Associate Professor of Art History at Occidental College.
