Compulsive Beauty by Foster Hal (36 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Publisher: The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1995.First Softcover Edition, First Printing. NEAR FINE softcover book in illustrated wraps, as issued. Small crease on bottom right corner of front cover.nNot remainder marked. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy.

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Hardcover. Gray cloth boards with gilt lettering. Turquoise dust jacket with color-illustration and white lettering. Mylar jacket. 313 pp. Occasional 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. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker on the dust jacket at the base of the spine. Plate on the front free end page. Sticker on the back free end page. In great, clean condition with solid binding.…

Hardcover. Gray cloth boards with gilt lettering. Turquoise dust jacket with color-illustration and white lettering. 313 pp. Occasional 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. Good, with slight wear to cover edges. …

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Soft cover. Condition: New. FOSTER, HAL Compulsive beauty. London: The MIT Press, 2000. Large 8vo., 313 p., b/w ills. Paperback. New ISBN: 9780262560818 CATALOG: Painting & Sculpture KEYWORDS: History of art 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. Surrealism has long been seen as its founder, Andre 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 traumatic tableaux that point to difficult connections not only between sadism and masochism butal so between surrealism and fascism. At this point Compulsive Beauty turns to the social dimension of the surrealist uncanny. First Foster reads the surrealist repertoire of automatons and mannequins as a reflection on the uncanny processes of mechanization and commodification. Then he considers the surrealist use of outmoded images as an attempt to work through the historical repression effected by these same processes. In a brief conclusion he discusses the fate of surrealism today in a world become surrealistic. Compulsive Beauty not only offers a deconstructive reading of surrealism, long neglected by Anglo-American art history, but also participates in a postmodern reconsideration of modernism, the dominant accounts of which have obscured its involvements in desire and trauma, capitalist shock and technological development.…

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo. pp. xxi, [1 leaf], 313. illus. index. cloth. dw. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Fine hardcover, gray cloth, gilt lettering. Jacket very fine, no edge wear, not faded. Foster reads surrealism as an art given over to the uncanny, to the compulsion to repeat and the drive toward death. Black and white images. 313 pages. M06247. …

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Book hardcover First Edition b&w ills throughout pp313. Condition New.

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