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A wide-ranging look at surrealist and postsurrealist engagements with the culture and imagery of childhood.

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“A compelling history of the toy as a motif in modern and contemporary art. . . . The first four chapters explore the toy in Surrealist works and ideas. . . . This ‘dark’ quality, which speaks to associations that deviate from romantic visions of childhood as innocence, is a powerful feature of Hopkins’s argument, at times bringing the reader into unsettling territory.”—Julian Jason Haladyn, Burlington Magazine

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2022

Dark Toys

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      Publisher: Yale University Press
      Publication Date: 3/2/2021 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780300225747, 978-0300225747
      ISBN10: 0300225741

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A wide-ranging look at surrealist and postsurrealist engagements with the culture and imagery of childhood.

      Trade Review
      “A compelling history of the toy as a motif in modern and contemporary art. . . . The first four chapters explore the toy in Surrealist works and ideas. . . . This ‘dark’ quality, which speaks to associations that deviate from romantic visions of childhood as innocence, is a powerful feature of Hopkins’s argument, at times bringing the reader into unsettling territory.”—Julian Jason Haladyn, Burlington Magazine

      CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2022

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