Twilight Visions : Surrealism and Paris / Therese Lichtenstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lichtenstein, Therese, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2009]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Through an examination of surrealist photographs, objects, exhibitions, activities, and writings, the essays in Twilight Visions, the beautifully illustrated companion volume to the exhibition of the same name, portray the French capital as a city in the process of metamorphosis-in a kind of twilight state. The Bureau of Surrealist Research, the major Surrealist exhibitions, and the photographs of Paris by Brassai, Andre Kertesz, Ilse Bing, Germaine Krull, and Man Ray, among others, all reflect the tumultuous social and cultural transformations occurring in Paris in the 1920s and 30s. Juxtaposing the strange with the familiar, they seek to break down repressive hierarchies. At the same time, they represent a desire to change the world through experimental activities. Introduced by Therese Lichtenstein, with essays by Therese Lichtenstein, Julia Kelly, Colin Jones, and Whitney Chadwick, this absorbing volume considers the social, aesthetic, and political stances of the Surrealists as they probed hidden aspects of the commonplace and blurred the boundaries between dreams and reality, subjectivity and objectivity. Copub: Frist Center for the Visual Arts

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

DARKLY LIT STREETS

THE CITY IN TWILIGHT

WINDOWS ON THE CITY

THE BUREAU OF SURREALIST RESEARCH

MARVELOUS ENCOUNTERS

SURREALIST EXHIBIT IONS, PARISIAN EXPOSITIONS

PORTRAITS AFTER-HOURS

MYTHIC WOMAN/REAL WOMEN: EMBODYING DESIRE IN 1938

SURREAL FIGURES

CONTRIBUTORS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2024)

ISBN:

9780520420793

0520420799

OCLC:

1162387849