Surrealism, Communism and Photography
Bate, D. 2004. Surrealism, Communism and Photography. in: Evans, M. (ed.) Empire and Culture: Empire and culture: the French experience, 1830-1940 Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 57-70
Bate, D. 2004. Surrealism, Communism and Photography. in: Evans, M. (ed.) Empire and Culture: Empire and culture: the French experience, 1830-1940 Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 57-70
| Chapter title | Surrealism, Communism and Photography |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bate, D. |
| Editors | Evans, M. |
| Abstract | Surrealism was an important avenue for anti-colonial thought at the beginning of the twentieth century in French culture. Such a proposition goes against common assumptions of how surrealism is understood today. A typical view of surrealism in contemporary Anglo-American culture regards it as the antics of a group of sexist young men totally preoccupied with their own chaotic internal thoughts who were the initiators of scandalous asocial activities. Accounts of historical surrealism have become a caricature and, even in a sociology of art interested in the European avant-garde, surrealism is described as doing not much more than creating a ‘shock’ to other members of its petty bourgeois class and a frisson of excitement for a bored native bourgeoisie. |
| Book title | Empire and Culture: Empire and culture: the French experience, 1830-1940 |
| Page range | 57-70 |
| Year | 2004 |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 2004 |
| ISBN | 9781349419029 |
| 9780230000681 | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230000681_4 |