Beware of domestic objects : covation and equivocation in 1936

Author

Harris, Steven

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Art history. 2001, Num. 5, Vol. 24, 725-757, 776, 12 ill.

ISSN

0141-6790

Abstract (en)

Focuses on the competing conceptions of surrealism held in the 1930s by Salvador Dalí and André Breton, which were centered on the notions of paranoia-criticism and automatism. The article is oriented around the production of a number of surrealist objects and paintings in which these differences were articulated, and includes a discussion of the ways in which paranoia-criticism and automatism were theorized in the 1930s. It includes as well a discussion of the surrealists' critical relation to modern art, which is exemplified by the surrealist object, and of the way in which gender played a determining role in the conflict between the conceptions of surrealism offered by Dalí and Breton.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945
• Surrealism
• Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989
• Spain
• Breton, André, 1896-1966
• France
• 1900-2000
• Art theory
• Automatism
• Art criticism
• Gender (sex)
• Objects
• Painting
• Modernism
• Paranoia

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945
• Surréalisme
• Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989
• Espagne
• Breton, André, 1896-1966
• France
• 1900-2000
• Théorie de l'art
• Automatisme
• Critique d'art
• Sexe (catégorie)
• Objet
• Peinture
• Modernisme
• Paranoïa

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier20020701-00128704

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