Modernist primitivism in 1933 : Brassaï's "Involuntary sculptures" in Minotaure

Author

Conley, Katherine

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Modernism/modernity (Baltimore, Md.). 2003, Num. 1, Vol. 10, 127-140, 1 ill.

ISSN

1071-6068

Abstract (en)

Considers Brassaï's "Involuntary sculptures," six photographed sculptures published in the Paris-based surrealist journal Minotaure in December of 1933. Considers the implications of publishing tribal objects and contemporary art together in these inaugural issues, namely how Brassaï's European quotidian objects and their captions (probably by Dalí) exemplify a specifically modernist, primitivist aesthetic response to ethnography.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Sculpture -- France
• Brassaï (Gyula Halász), 1899-1984
• France
• Sculpture
• Objects
• 1800-2000
• Ethnography
• Primitivism
• Reception
• Aesthetics
• Europe
• Daily life
• Paris (FRA)
• Minotaure (Paris, 1933-1939)
• Publications
• Surrealism
• Collaboration
• Photography
• Art
• Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989
• Spain
• Primitive societies

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Sculpture -- France
• Brassaï (Gyula Halász), 1899-1984
• France
• Sculpture
• Objet
• 1800-2000
• Ethnographie
• Primitivisme
• Réception
• Esthétique
• Europe
• Vie quotidienne
• Paris (FRA)
• Minotaure (Paris, 1933-1939)
• Publication
• Surréalisme
• Collaboration
• Photographie
• Art
• Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989
• Espagne
• Société primitive

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier20060401-00020307

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