Name: Against Repression: Surrealism, Sublimation and the Recuperation of Desire
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Author: Ades, Dawn ; Mathews, Timothy ; James, Klem
ISBN: 9781787077690

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Against Repression: Surrealism, Sublimation and the Recuperation of Desire

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Physical Book

Author

Klem James

Illustrated by

Dawn Ades

Timothy Mathews

Publisher

Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis

Language

English

Pages

300

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781787077690

Synopsis "Against Repression: Surrealism, Sublimation and the Recuperation of Desire"

Surrealism has been criticised for having been too steeped in idealism and poetry to have been an effective force for political and personal emancipation in the early twentieth century. The movement, its detractors claim, was conservative in outlook, denying the sexual and material poles of existence, and preferring sublimation over the direct expression of (and engagement with) base desire. These arguments are carefully re-examined and re-evaluated in this book, which focuses on the movement's artistic and political activities of the late 1930s, 1940s and beyond. The book reveals how a more transgressive strand of Surrealist art and thought emerged in France in this period, a strand that is underpinned by an increasing openness to sexual alterity. Surrealist works from this time are considered in terms of their more subversive aspect and shown not only to validate erotic desire but also to challenge the certainties (socio-political, personal) of their audience. Surrealist art and literature are thus presented as actively countering the repressive effects of a socially conservative France, aspiring not only to be at the vanguard of social change but of a change of consciousness in society.

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