Photography and Surrealism: Sexuality, Colonialism and Social Dissent

David Bate examines automatism and the photographic image, the Surrealist passion for insanity, ambivalent use of Orientalism, use of Sadean philosophy and the effect of fascism of the Surrealists. The book is illustrated wtih a wide range of surrealist photographs.

Author: David Bate
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 12/23/2003
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.08w x 0.77d
ISBN13: 9781860643798
ISBN10: 1860643795
BISAC Categories:
- Art | History | General
- Photography | Business Aspects
- Photography | History

About the Author

David Bate is Course Leader in MA Photographic Studies & Senior Lecturer in Photography Theory, University of Westminster, London.

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