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""Collective Inventions"" constitutes the first collection and book-length publication on Surrealism in Belgium on which Belgian and Anglo-American scholars have collaborated. ""Collective Inventions"" offers new writings by leading international scholars and experts on the movement's diverse manifestations in Belgium. The essays range from comparative analyses of Surrealism in Belgium with other versions of Surrealism, particularly French, to detailed critical engagements with individual oeuvres. The authors use contemporary theoretical and critical models to explore artistic production in a variety of media, including painting and photography, film and fashion, postcards and Perspex. ""Collective Inventions"" significantly alters and widens current understandings of Surrealism.

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Author:   Patricia Allmer ,  Hilde van Van Gelder (KU Leuven and Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Art and Visual Culture.)
Publisher:   Leuven University Press
Imprint:   Leuven University Press
Volume:   v. 5
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.737kg
ISBN:  

9789058675927

ISBN 10:   9058675920
Pages:   247
Publication Date:   01 May 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Surrealism in Belgium 1. Surrealist STructures The Fashionable Surrealism of Varietes An Paenhuysen The End of Surrealism in Belgium Steven Harris 2. Word and Image Paul Nouge Constructing Absence Silvano Levy Magritte's Smoke and Mirrors: Reading, Writing, and Art-magic Ben Stoltzfus Rene Magritte and the Postcard Patricia Allmer 3. Masculin/Feminine He Who Has Never Dreamt of Mae West: Surrealist Masculinity and the Late Collages of E.L.T. Mesens Neil Matheson Color Plates Evelyne Axell (1935-1972): a Belgian Surrealist Pop Artist? Liesbeth Decan 4. Film and Photography Automatic Photographs: Brussels, Breton and Surrealism David Bate The King Cophetua Legend, Synestesia and Magic (Sur)realism in Andre Delvaux's Rendez-vous a bray (1971) and Benvenuta (1983) Georgiana Colvile Christian Dotremont's Theory of Photography Hilde Van Gelder Index Colophon

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Hilde Van Gelder is professor of modern and contemporary art history at the KU Leuven and co-director of the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Art and Visual Culture.

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