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Subtitle: Dada and surrealist objects after the readymade
By: Janine Mileaf
Series: Interfaces : studies in visual culture; Interfaces, studies in visual culture
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press; Published by University Press of New England
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Hanover, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781584658825; 9781584659341
Subjects: Surrealism; Modern Art; Sense (Philosophy); Touch; Dadaism; Found objects (Art)
Other titles: Dada and surrealist objects after the readymade
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the tactility of the object; title: The taste of Marcel Duchamp's readymades; title: Man Ray's Object to be destroyed: the violence of reciprocity; title: André Breton at the flea market of Saint-Ouen: The tactile Flâneur; title: Surrealist politics of exhibition: juxtaposition, ethnography, and revolution; title: Joseph Cornell's sandboxes and the extension as palpable memory.