Description
Book SynopsisOffers an exploration of how surrealist visual production was shaped by constructions of gender and sexuality, particularly masculinity, in the 1920s and early 1930s. This book analyzes surrealist work in relation to the history of surrealism and investigates how surrealist artists and writers appropriated advertising, and sexology.
Trade Review"Lyford demonstrates the subtle interpretation needed to navigate the complexities raised by issues of masculinity within Surrealism." -- Robert Radford Burlington Magazine "Tight, richly documented, and does an excellent job of interweaving image, text, and context, no easy task... Lyford has done a remarkable job of demonstrating how complicated surrealism's relationship was to all forms of normative masculinity." -- Carolyn J. Dean H-France Reviews
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Paradox of Surrealist Masculinity 1. Anxiety and Perversion in Postwar Paris 2. The Aesthetics of Dismemberment 3. The Advertisement of Emasculation: Andre Kertesz in Surrealist Paris 4. Man Ray, Lee Miller, and the Photography of Surrealist Sexuality 5. The Lessons of Barbette: Surrealism, Fascism, and the Politics of Sexual Metamorphosis Conclusion: A Postscript on Masculinity and Reconstruction Notes Selected Bibliography Index
