A Cavalier History of Surrealism
by Vaneigem, Raoul; Nicholson-Smith, Donald (Translated by)
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Edinburgh and San Francisco: AK Press, 1999. 131 pages; 23 cm. First published, 1977, under title: Histoire desinvolte du surrealisme. Translated from the French. Tight, clean copy. Surrealism from a situationist perspective. CONTENTS: 1. History and surrealism: the crisis of culture; The break from Dada; The specificity of surrealism; In the shadow of the Communist Party; 2. Changing life: The refusal survival; Fragments of a project of human emancipation; Knowledge of the human and its experimental investigation; 3. Transforming the world: Revolutionary ideology; An informal organization; 4. Promoting the image as object: Language and its subversion; The savage eye and the civilization of the image; 5. Converting to mysticism: Reconsecration; An Anti-Christian ecumenism; Now.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.
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- Title
- A Cavalier History of Surrealism
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- Vaneigem, Raoul; Nicholson-Smith, Donald (Translated by)
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- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1873176945
- ISBN 13
- 9781873176948
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- AK Press
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh and San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1999
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- 8vo
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- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; European / 8. Modern, 1900-1945; Movements / Surrealism; Movements / Situationism;
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