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Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War - Greeley, Robin Adèle - Yale University Press
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Jul 10, 2006
240 p., 256 x 192
95 b/w + 30 color illus.
ISBN: 9780300112955
ISBN-10: 0300112955
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Cloth: $65.00 sc
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Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War
     
Winner of the 2008 Eleanor Tufts Book Award, given by the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies.
How might artistic practice offer unique insight into the cataclysmic debacle of war? Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War plumbs this provocative question through an ambitious account of a pivotal period in European cultural history. The book focuses on the relation between artistic endeavor and politics during a period of social crisis. By scrutinizing the widely varying responses to the Spanish Civil War in the work of Miró, Dalí, Caballero, Masson, and Picasso, the author investigates Surrealism’s efforts to bridge the divide between political thought and political act.
Robin Adèle Greeley examines such central works as Miró’s Still Life with Old Shoe and Dalí’s Autumn Cannibalism in the context of contemporary works and historical events. She also examines such topics as Surrealism’s flirtations with fascism, the movement’s relations with the Communist Party and the Popular Front, and the distinct development of Spanish versus French Surrealism. She concludes with an in-depth discussion of Picasso’s Guernica.
Robin Adèle Greeley is associate professor of art history, Department of Art and Art History, University of Connecticut.
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