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Natalya Lusty - Surrealism, Feminism, Psychoanalysis - 9781138245617 - V9781138245617
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Surrealism, Feminism, Psychoanalysis

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Description for Surrealism, Feminism, Psychoanalysis Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; AC; AJ; DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 353.
How did women Surrealists such as Leonora Carrington and Claude Cahun take up the question of female identity in terms of their own aesthetic and intellectual practice? What was the response of women analysts such as Joan Riviere to Freud's psychoanalytic construction of femininity? These are among the questions that Natalya Lusty brings to her sophisticated and theoretically informed investigation into the appropriation of 'the feminine' by the Surrealist movement. Combining biographical and textual methods of analysis with historically specific discussions of related cultural sites such as women's magazines, fashion, debutante culture, sexology, modernist lesbian subculture, pornography, and female ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138245617
SKU
V9781138245617
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Ref
99-2

About Natalya Lusty
Natalya Lusty is a Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Reviews for Surrealism, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
'In a compelling manner, Natalya Lusty delineates the tropes, ambiguities, and blind spots that haunt Surrealism by pitting the claims of canonical artists such as Breton against the praxis of their female counterparts, notably Leonora Carrington and Claude Cahun. Intelligently positioned in relation to the critical feminist debate surrounding the Surrealist Movement, Lusty's thoughtful and original book shows us what ... Read more

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