Natalya Lusty

Surrealism, Feminism, Psychoanalysis

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 461g
• ISBN-13: 9780754653363
• ISBN-10: 0754653366
• Artikelnr.: 35732079

Autorenporträt

Natalya Lusty is a Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: disturbing subjects: surrealism, feminism and psychoanalysis
Masking the crime of femininity
Surrealist transgression and feminist subversion
Disturbing the photographic subject
Fashioning the lesbian subject of surrealism
Surrealism, violence and censorship
Conclusion: disturbing the feminist subject
Bibliography
Index.

Rezensionen

'In a compelling manner, Natalya Lusty delineates the tropes, ambiguities, and blind spots that haunt Surrealism by pitting the claims of canonical artists such as Breton against the praxis of their female counterparts, notably Leonora Carrington and Claude Cahun. Intelligently positioned in relation to the critical feminist debate surrounding the Surrealist Movement, Lusty's thoughtful and original book shows us what we can learn today from and through the utopian imaginary of revolutionary paradigms such as surrealism and feminism.' Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich, Switzerland.