Making History
Subtitle: Surrealism and the Invention of a Political Culture
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: March 28, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780761822103
Subjects: Surrealism & Dada; Non-Classifiable; Art / Fine Arts; Political; Philosophy; Nonfiction
Description: "While it is common knowledge in Surrealist studies that the Surrealists appropriated historical figures such as Giuseppe Arcimboldo and the Marquis de Sade as "proto-Surrealist," the significance of this aspect of the Surrealist project has rarely been addressed.

Theorizing Surrealism as a "political culture," Making History brings to light the politicized nature of history writing by examining the Surrealists' construction of an "anti-canon," one which would critique and expose the biases of the conventional Western canon, while simultaneously buttressing the Surrealists' attempt to create a coherent, yet subversive alternative sub-culture.

Indeed Making History will suggest that the Surrealists performatively revealed that history can be not only a form of oppression, but a form of protest as well."--BOOK JACKET.