Description
| Product ID: | 9781138245617 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Surrealism, Feminism, Psychoanalysis |
| Authors: | Author: Natalya Lusty |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | History of art, Art & design styles: Surrealism & Dada, Feminism and feminist theory, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Feminism & feminist theory, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology) |
| Description: | Combining historical and cultural methods of analysis with sophisticated theoretical discussions, Natalya Lusty explores how women artists and intellectuals responded to the appropriation of ''the feminine'' in Surrealism and psychoanalysis. Reading work by Leonora Carrington, Claude Cahun, Joan Riviere and Cindy Sherman in the contexts of canonical figures such as Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan and the Surrealist photographer Hans Bellmer, the book illuminates the paradox of feminine presence within these movements. How did women Surrealists such as Leonora Carrington and Claude Cahun take up the question of female identity in terms of their own aesthetic and intellectual practice? What was the response of women analysts such as Joan Riviere to Freud''s psychoanalytic construction of femininity? These are among the questions that Natalya Lusty brings to her sophisticated and theoretically informed investigation into the appropriation of ''the feminine'' by the Surrealist movement. Combining biographical and textual methods of analysis with historically specific discussions of related cultural sites such as women''s magazines, fashion, debutante culture, sexology, modernist lesbian subculture, pornography, and female criminality, the book examines the ambiguities and blind spots that haunt the work of more central figures such as André Breton, Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan, Walter Benjamin, and the Surrealist photographer Hans Bellmer. Lusty''s examination of a series of psychoanalytic Surrealist themes, including narcissism, fantasy, masquerade, perversion, and ''the double'', illuminates a modernist preoccupation with the crisis of subjectivity and representation and its ongoing relevance to more recent work by Cindy Sherman and Judith Butler. Her book is an important contribution to modernist studies that will appeal to scholars and students working across a diverse range of fields, including literary studies, gender studies, visual culture, cultural studies, and cultural history. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-09-09 |
