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A Boatload of Madmen: Surrealism and the American Avant-garde 1920-1950
A Boatload of Madmen Surrealism and the American Avantgarde 19201950 Author:Dickran Tashjian Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2002 Pages: 448 Publisher: Thames & Hudson The American art community had its first glimpse of Surrealism in 1932. Its revolutionary art galvanized an emerging avant-grade. and four years later a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art catapaulted the movement into the cultural limelight. This vividly w... more »ritten cultural history tells the story of Surrealism's remarkable sea change. from a fiercely leftist. strongly literary. avant-garde movement into an apolitical. almost exclusively visual style. It shows how the American avant-garde selectively shaped European surrealism to meet its own agendas. and how it was in turn reinterpreted. de-politicized and commercially exploited by mainstream American culture and the fashion and advertising industries.« less
ISBN-13: 9780500976128 ISBN-10: 0500976120 Pages:448 Edition:New Ed Rating: