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Item Number: 129037
Title: The Curatorial Avant-Garde : Surrealism and Exhibition Practice in France, 1925–1941
Author: Jolles, Adam
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780271064154
Description: University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014. 25cm., hardcover, 288pp., 25 color, 68 b&w illus. Summary: All too often, the historical avant-garde is taken to be incommensurate with and antithetical to the world inhabited by the museum. In The Curatorial Avant-Garde, by contrast, Adam Jolles demonstrates the surrealists’ direct participation in and contribution to the museum world. Surrealist exhibitions, from the first in 1925 to the voluminous International Exhibition of Surrealism in 1938, increasingly dissolved the conventional boundaries between visual media, language, and the space of public display. Such curatorial intrusion proved unwelcome among many critics, who perceived it as a distraction from the ostensible subject of the exhibition, the works themselves. Through interdisciplinary analyses of particular exhibitions and works of art in relation to the manner in which they were displayed, Jolles addresses the public face of surrealism. He directs attention to the venues, the contemporary debates those venues engendered, and the critical discourses in which they participated. In so doing, he shines new light on the movement’s artistic and intellectual development, revealing both the political stakes attached to surrealism within the historical context of interwar Europe and the movement’s instrumental role in the trajectory of modernism. (Refiguring Modernism Series)
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