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Surrealist Masculinities: Gender Anxiety and the Aesthetics of Post–World War I Reconstruction in France
Amy Lyford
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Description for Surrealist Masculinities: Gender Anxiety and the Aesthetics of Post–World War I Reconstruction in France
Hardback. Offers an exploration of how surrealist visual production was shaped by constructions of gender and sexuality, particularly masculinity, in the 1920s and early 1930s. This book analyzes surrealist work in relation to the history of surrealism and investigates how surrealist artists and writers appropriated advertising, and sexology. Num Pages: 251 pages, 103 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD7; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 186 x 23. Weight in Grams: 604.
"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 ... Read more
"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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520246409
SKU
V9780520246409
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About Amy Lyford
Amy Lyford is Associate Professor of Art History at Occidental College.
Reviews for Surrealist Masculinities: Gender Anxiety and the Aesthetics of Post–World War I Reconstruction in France
"Lyford demonstrates the subtle interpretation needed to navigate the complexities raised by issues of masculinity within Surrealism."
Robert Radford Burlington Magazine "Tight, richly documented, and does an excellent job of interweaving image, text, and context, no easy task... Lyford has done a remarkable job of demonstrating how complicated surrealism's relationship was to all forms of normative masculinity."
Carolyn ... Read more
Robert Radford Burlington Magazine "Tight, richly documented, and does an excellent job of interweaving image, text, and context, no easy task... Lyford has done a remarkable job of demonstrating how complicated surrealism's relationship was to all forms of normative masculinity."
Carolyn ... Read more