Surrealist Art and Writing, 1919–1939: The Gold of Time (Contemporary Artists and their Critics)

Surrealist Art and Writing, 1919-1939 offers a fresh analysis of Surrealism--of the artists Dal­, Ernst, Masson and Tanguy and the writing of Surrealism's leaders--Andr© Breton, Aragon and Eluard. Spector uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine how the ideas and images of this avant-garde movement grew up in anipathy to middle class values. He situates the concrete products of Surrealist art and writing in their historical context without losing sight of larger theoretical and ideological issues involving psychoanalysis, Marxism and philosophy.