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- catalog abstract ""Part documentary and part sustained critique, Surrealism and the Exotic is the story of the obsessive relationship between the Surrealist intellect and non-Western culture. Describing the journeys of wealthy young aesthetes across Africa, Oceania, Mexico and the Caribbean, it combines fascinating insights into the buccaneer mentality of early twentieth-century collectors with a comprehensive overview of the artistic heritage threatened by their adventures. Featuring seventy photographs of artefacts, exhibitions and expeditions in progress, it raises controversial questions about material desire, artistic representation and the exploitative nature of fantasy. Why were primitivist aesthetics considered so deeply liberating by an educated twentieth-century cultural elite? Was Surrealism's interest in exoticism really the act of cultural democracy that Breton believed it to be? Did primitive art genuinely hold some form of semi-occult power, an ecstatic sign to release the unconscious?" "This intimate portrait vividly brings to life the world of licentious hedonism inhabited by Breton, Ernst, Paul Eluard, Tristan Tzara and the notorious dissident Surrealists Georges Betaille and Michel Leiris. It is an unparalleled introduction to the Surrealist movement and to French thought and culture in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Surrealism & the exotic".
- catalog contributor b12902692.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""Part documentary and part sustained critique, Surrealism and the Exotic is the story of the obsessive relationship between the Surrealist intellect and non-Western culture. Describing the journeys of wealthy young aesthetes across Africa, Oceania, Mexico and the Caribbean, it combines fascinating insights into the buccaneer mentality of early twentieth-century collectors with a comprehensive overview of the artistic heritage threatened by their adventures. Featuring seventy photographs of artefacts, exhibitions and expeditions in progress, it raises controversial questions about material desire, artistic representation and the exploitative nature of fantasy. Why were primitivist aesthetics considered so deeply liberating by an educated twentieth-century cultural elite? Was Surrealism's interest in exoticism really the act of cultural democracy that Breton believed it to be? Did primitive art genuinely hold some form of semi-occult power, an ecstatic sign to release the unconscious?" "This intimate portrait vividly brings to life the world of licentious hedonism inhabited by Breton, Ernst, Paul Eluard, Tristan Tzara and the notorious dissident Surrealists Georges Betaille and Michel Leiris. It is an unparalleled introduction to the Surrealist movement and to French thought and culture in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-252) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Surrealism and ethnologie: subversive ideologies -- pt. I. Cults -- 1. The culture of Surrealism -- pt. II. The primitive: ideologies and objects -- 2. The primitive: fantasy, theory, Surrealist ideology -- 3. The primitive object -- pt. III. Voyages -- 4. Africanismes -- 5. Oceanie: re-mapping the world -- 6. North America: the search for the familiar on unfamiliar terrain -- 7. Mexico and the Caribbean: 'Magic as part of everyday life' -- pt. IV. Anthropologies -- 8. Michel Leiris: an anthropology of the 'self' -- 9. Georges Bataille: an anthropology of otherness.".
- catalog extent "xii, 260 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0415276373".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
- catalog subject "709/.04/063 21".
- catalog subject "Exoticism in art.".
- catalog subject "NX456.5.S8 T98 2002".
- catalog subject "Primitivism in art Influence.".
- catalog subject "Surrealism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Surrealism and ethnologie: subversive ideologies -- pt. I. Cults -- 1. The culture of Surrealism -- pt. II. The primitive: ideologies and objects -- 2. The primitive: fantasy, theory, Surrealist ideology -- 3. The primitive object -- pt. III. Voyages -- 4. Africanismes -- 5. Oceanie: re-mapping the world -- 6. North America: the search for the familiar on unfamiliar terrain -- 7. Mexico and the Caribbean: 'Magic as part of everyday life' -- pt. IV. Anthropologies -- 8. Michel Leiris: an anthropology of the 'self' -- 9. Georges Bataille: an anthropology of otherness.".
- catalog title "Surrealism & the exotic".
- catalog title "Surrealism and the exotic / Louise Tythacott.".
- catalog type "text".