Main entry:

Krauss, Rosalind E., author.

Title & Author:

L'amour fou : photography & Surrealism / Rosalind Krauss, Jane Livingston ; with an essay by Dawn Ades.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Corcoran Gallery of Art ; New York : Abbeville Press, Publishers, [1985]
©1985

Description:

243 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Issued in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Aug.-Oct., 1985.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface / Rosalind Krauss and Jane Livingston -- Photography in the service of Surrealism / Rosalind Krauss -- Corpus delicti / Rosalind Krauss -- Man Ray and Surrealist photography / Jane Livingston -- Photography and the Surrealist text / Dawn Ades -- Artist biographies and bibliographies / compiled by Winifred Schiffman.
Also issued online.

Summary:

Much has been written about Surrealist painting and sculpture, but most of the erotic, disorienting, and exquisite Surrealist photographs of Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Andre Breton, Brassai, Salvador Dali, Andre Kertesz, and Hans Bellmer have remained all but unknown -- until now. Traditional criticism has viewed Surrealist photography as a pale imitation of authentic Surrealist work. The assumption has been that photography, a "realistic" medium, is fundamentally incompatible with a cause devoted to the wildly subjective, the world of dreams, and the unconscious. As a consequence, Surrealist photography, a major body of twentieth-century art, has remained largely unexplored.L' Amour fou is the first book to study the crucial role photography did in fact play in the Surrealist movement. It shows how photographers enlisted into the service of "subjective" Surrealism their medium's very claim to "objective" reality. Of greatest interest, of course, is the book's abundant reproductions of the fantastic and distorted photographic creations that must be acknowledged as an important part of the Surrealist oeuvre.

ISBN:

0896595765
9780896595767
089659579X (pbk.)
9780896595798 (pbk.)

Subject:

Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Surrealism Exhibitions.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Surréalisme Expositions.
Photography, Artistic
Surrealism
Fotografie
Surrealismus
Surrealisme.
Photographie.

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Illustrated works
Catalogues d'exposition.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Livingston, Jane, author, writer of preface.
Krauss, Rosalind E., writer of preface.
Ades, Dawn, writer of supplementary textual content.
Axelrod, Alan, 1952- editor.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, publisher, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 135224
Call No.: ID:85-B24504
Status: Available