Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War
By: Robin Adèle Greeley.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780300112955
Subjects: Surrealism -- Spain; Surrealism -- France; Art -- Political aspects -- Spain -- History -- 20th century; Art -- Political aspects -- France -- History -- 20th century; Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Art and the war
Genres: Art and the war
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pictures and battefields; title: Nationalism, civil war, and painting: Joan Miró and political agency in the pictorial realm; title: Dalí, fascism, and the "ruin oif Surrealism"; title: Surrealism's public awakening in Spain: politics and pictures in Republican and Fascist Spain; title: The Barcelona Acépale: Spain and the politics of violence in the work of André Masson; title: The body as political metaphor: Picasso and the performance of Guernica; title: Of apples and guns.