Compulsive Beauty (October Books) Tapa dura - 1993

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The MIT Press, 1993-09-28. Hardcover. Used: Good.

MIT Press, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Unworn Hardback But With Extensive Annotations And Marker Lines.

The MIT Press, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x7x1. Clean Over All With No Marks Folds Or Highlights Inside. In Very Good Condition. 313 Pages With The Index. Hardcover.- We can ship from Canada and the USA, based on your address. Specializing in academic, collectible and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us.

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Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1993. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Surrealism has long been seen as its founder, André Breton, wanted it to be seen: as a movement of love and liberation. In Compulsive Beauty, Foster reads surrealism from its other, darker side: as an art given over to the uncanny, to the compulsion to repeat and the drive toward death. To this end Foster first restages the difficult encounter of surrealism with Freudian psychoanalysis, then redefines the crucial categories of surrealism―the marvelous, convulsive beauty, objective chance―in terms of the Freudian uncanny, or the return of familar things made strange by repression. Next, with the art of Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, and Alberto Giacometti in mind, Foster develops a theory of the surrealist image as a working over of a primal fantasy. This leads him finally to propose as a summa of surrealism a body of work often shunted to its margins: the dolls of Hans Bellmer, so many… Leer más

Cambridge: MIT, 1993. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. An October Book. 4to, 313 pp., b/w illus.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2000. Hardcover. Good, with slight wear to cover edges. Gray cloth boards with gilt lettering. Turquoise dust jacket with color-illustration and white lettering. 313 pp. Occassional BW photographs. The author reads Surrealism from its darker side: as an arts given over to the uncanny, to the compulsion to repeat and the drive toward death.

Cambridge, MA & London: The MIT Press, [1993]., 1993. 8vo. pp. xxi, [1 leaf], 313. illus. index. cloth. dw. First Edition.. F. Hardcover.