David Batesб Photography and Surrealism: Sexuality, Colonialism and Social Dissent (Repost)
David Batesб Photography and Surrealism: Sexuality, Colonialism and Social Dissent
ISBN: 1860643787 | edition 2004 | PDF | 283 pages | 4 mb
ISBN: 1860643787 | edition 2004 | PDF | 283 pages | 4 mb
This clear and challenging re-evaluation of the status and usage of photographic images in historical surrealism puts surrealism's fundamental issues back into the framework of its historical purpose and function. David Bate asks what a surrealist photograph actually is. He discusses automatism and the photographic image, the surrealist passion for insanity, their ambivalent use of Orientalism and adoption of Sadean philosophy and the effect of fascism on the surrealists.