Brassaï : images of culture and the surrealist observer / Marja Warehime.

Main entry:

Warehime, Marja, 1946-

Title & Author:

Brassaï : images of culture and the surrealist observer / Marja Warehime.

Publication:

Description:

xviii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Modernist studies

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-184) and index.
Introduction: A Vision of Culture -- I. The Eye of Paris and the Surrealist Observer -- II. Remembrance of Things Past: Cultural Preservation as Renovation -- III. Between Realism and Surrealism -- IV. Ethnographic Surrealism and Surrealist Baroque -- V. The Photographer and the Artists in His Life: Questions of Art and Style -- VI. The Photographer as Writer -- Conclusion: From Modernist to Media Culture.

Summary:

Henry Miller called his friend Brassai "the eye of Paris." This strikingly innovative photographer revealed the City of Light as had no other artist before him, and his work continues to influence the art and practice of photography. In this authoritative, penetrating, and comprehensive study of Brassai's complete oeuvre, illustrated with reproductions of many stunning photographs, Marja Warehime analyzes Brassai's paradoxical position between documentary realism and Surrealism in the France of the 1930s. She stresses the subjects he pursued most passionately: the shadowy Parisian night, the scrawlings of urban graffiti, the nature of creative genius as reflected in studies of France's most celebrated artists and their studios. Warehime explores Brassai's striking, atmospheric images of cafes, dance halls, brothels, and streets where workers on the night shift mingle with tourists, night-clubbers, vagabonds, street toughs, performers, and prostitutes. Focusing on his photographs, but drawing also on his literary, aesthetic, biographical, and autobiographical writings - including letters that remain untranslated from the original Hungarian - Warehime examines Brassai's relationship to the Surrealist movement and shows us how his work evokes the cultural climate of France between the world wars. The history of his career, she demonstrates, reflects not only the development of photography but also the sweep of Western cultural history; his work bridges nineteenth-century romantic realism and modernism, anticipating the chief values of media culture: immediacy and emotional power.

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ISBN:

0807119431 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780807119433 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Brassaï, 1899-1984.
Brassaï 1899-1984
Brassaï (1899-1984)
Brassaï
Surrealismus 1982
Surrealism France.
Surréalisme France.
Surrealism.
Fotografie
Foto's.
Surrealisme.
France.
Photography
Hungary

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Modernist studies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 109675
Call No.: ID TR140.B823 W3; ID:96-B1557
Status: Available

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