|
Surrealist Masculinities: Gender Anxiety and the Aesthetics of Post-World War I Reconstruction in France
|
| Price: | CDN$ 57.11 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $39. Details |
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Ships from and sold by Amazon.ca
Product Description
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.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #796943 in Books
- Published on: 2007-07-05
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 2.10 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 251 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Lyford demonstrates the subtle interpretation needed to navigate the complexities raised by issues of masculinity within Surrealism."--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."--H-France Reviews
From the Inside Flap
"This fascinating and well-researched book explores a little-examined side of Surrealism with rigor and style. Lyford has delved into little-known archives, finding means to put pressure on the gendered relationships within the movement and, most important, on the Surrealists' conceptions and experiences of masculinity. Surrealist Masculinities will become a classic resource for all scholars of Surrealism and the highly gendered literary and artistic subcultures of early twentieth-century Europe and North America."--Amelia Jones, Professor and Pilkington Chair, University of Manchester
About the Author
Amy Lyford is Associate Professor of Art History at Occidental College.
