03177nam a2200337Ia 4500 pucpr 20260716142316.0 041912s1993 maua b 00110 eng d 9780262560818 AEA1252AQ pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda spa CARIBET N6494.S8 F66 1993 N6494.S8 F66 1993 Foster, Hal 3342 Compulsive Beauty : Hal Foster. txt United States : The Mit Press , 1993. xxi, 313 p. ill. ; 23cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediaded n rdacarrier volume nc Index Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Preface XI -- 1 Beyond The Pleasure Principle? 1 -- 2 Compulsive Beauty 19 -- 3 Convulsive Identity 57 -- 4 Fatal Attraction 101 -- 5 Exquisite Corpses 125 -- 6 Outmoded Spaces 157 -- 7 Auratic Traces 193 -- 8 Beyond The Surrealism Principle? 209 -- Notes 215 -- List of Illustrations 299 -- Index 305 -- 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 familiar 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 -- Surrealism 176064 Local Psychoanalysis and art Local 154691 Erotic art. 92712 Local lcc 6 N6494.S8 General F66 1993 226344 226344 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2012-03-26 Amazon 25.18 493669 1 1 General N6494.S8 F66 1993 91000000026658 2016-10-13 00:00:00 2016-10-03 1 35.18 2012-03-26 6