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Making History
Kirsten Strom
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Description for Making History
Hardback. In Making History, Kirsten Strom investigates the Surrealists' radical critique of history and historical authorship. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: ACXD7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 326.
In Making History, Kirsten Strom investigates the Surrealists' radical critique of history and historical authorship. Locating Surrealism firmly within the culture wars of France in the 1920s and 30s, Strom examines the construction of a Surrealist anti-canon, one which would corrupt the contents of conventional artistic and literary canons, while simultaneously exposing the ideological biases of histories purportedly based on transcendent, timeless, and universal aesthetic truths. Indeed, through their celebration of the scandalous and the marginalized, as exemplified by figures including the Marquis de Sade, "outsider" artist Ferdinand Cheval, and unknown child poet Gisèlle Prassinos, the Surrealists would reveal that ... Read more
In Making History, Kirsten Strom investigates the Surrealists' radical critique of history and historical authorship. Locating Surrealism firmly within the culture wars of France in the 1920s and 30s, Strom examines the construction of a Surrealist anti-canon, one which would corrupt the contents of conventional artistic and literary canons, while simultaneously exposing the ideological biases of histories purportedly based on transcendent, timeless, and universal aesthetic truths. Indeed, through their celebration of the scandalous and the marginalized, as exemplified by figures including the Marquis de Sade, "outsider" artist Ferdinand Cheval, and unknown child poet Gisèlle Prassinos, the Surrealists would reveal that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761822103
SKU
V9780761822103
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About Kirsten Strom
Kirsten Strom is Assistant Professor of Art History at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan.
Reviews for Making History
This slim, elegant and touching volume opens up the question of the political intentions of surrealism?Strom's erudition has resulted in a masterful short book that could work wonders as an introduction to surrealism, as a debut of modernist art history and as a political primer for those many youth with hair dyed green who would like to oppose the dead ... Read more