| Dali and Postmodernism: This Is Not an Essence Contributor(s): Lafountain, Marc J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791433269 ISBN-13: 9780791433263 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $32.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1997 Annotation: This text itself transcends the personal/history narrative of Dali and Breton and engages in a debate that still rages about subjectivity, identity, agency, knowledge, autonomy, coherence, order, transformation and liberation, alterity, representation, abstraction, essences, and meaning. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - General - Art | History - General - Art | Criticism & Theory |
| Dewey: 709.2 |
| LCCN: 96-48415 |
| Series: Suny Postmodern Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 5.83" W x 8.9" (0.55 lbs) 173 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: By taking Dali's paranoiac-critical method to the delirious extents Dali himself recommended, LaFountain demonstrates that Dali's Surrealism anticipates tactics practiced by postmodern and poststructural critics. In particular, LaFountain advances the notion that phantom meaning displaced Surrealism's phantom object, thereby creating a crisis of the subject and the object far in excess of that sought by Surrealist revolutionaries. Focusing on Dali's magnificent painting, Endless Enigma, LaFountain inaugurates New Dali Studies by offering an original interpretation of Dali's close, yet strained, relationship with André Breton and the Surrealist canon. |