Surrealism and the visual arts : theory and reception /
Grant, Kim,1962-
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-394) and index.
1: Poetry in the theory and criticism of modern painting in France -- The tradition of poetry and lyricism in French art criticism -- Modern paintings as poetic language -- The discovery of lyricism -- Andre Breton and modern art -- 2: Establishing a surrealist visual art -- Defining surrealism -- Defining surrealist visual art -- Surrealism and painting I: the foundation of surrealist art -- La Peinture Surréaliste: the presentation and reception of surrealist art -- Surrealism and painting II: materialism and morality -- 3: The threat of surrealist art -- Initiating the challenge -- Surrealism and painting III: avoiding automatism -- Appropriating automatism -- Realism and surrealism -- 4: Poetry made concrete -- Defying painting -- Remaking reality -- Automatic style -- Surrealism as an institution.
Surrealism.
Art, Modern
Art criticism
Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics)