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Item Number: 136361
Title: Consuming Surrealism in American Culture : Dissident Modernism
Author: Zalman, Sandra
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781472461759
Description: Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. 25cm., hardcover, 254pp., 10 color, 40 b&w illus. Summary: Consuming Surrealism in American Culture: Dissident Modernism argues that Surrealism worked as a powerful agitator to disrupt dominant ideas of modern art in the United States over the course of the twentieth century. Through analysis of Surrealism on display in both the museum and the marketplace, Sandra Zalman tackles Surrealism’s multi-faceted circulation to show how Surrealism, because it was both elite and popular, challenged the narrative of modern art, while also demonstrating the difficulty of presenting such narratives for public consumption. This study exposes how Surrealism - and popular artists like Dali, Magritte and Man Ray - were at the forefront of key debates in modern art - over the role of politics, popular culture, photography, and institutional involvement - yet these crucial developments have not heretofore been correlated with discourses surrounding Surrealism. Analyzing the American encounter with Surrealism through exhibitions organized by influential curators Alfred Barr, William Rubin, and Rosalind Krauss, and via advertising, movies, fashion and world’s fairs, this study gets at a persistent problem within the history of modern art - as a popular avant-garde, Surrealism challenges critical theories of modern art in which it does not fit, in large part because of its continued relevance to contemporary life.
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