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DARK TOYS: SURREALISM AND THE CULTURE OF CHILDHOOD

DARK TOYS: SURREALISM AND THE CULTURE OF CHILDHOOD
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  • AuthorDavid Hopkins
  • PublisherYale University Press
  • Date of publicationMars 2021
  • Language(s)English
  • IllustrationsColour, b&w ill.
  • Pages352
  • DescriptionGrand format
  • Price (VAT incl.)58.00 €
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Rereading a swathe of modern and contemporary artistic production through the lens of its engagement with childhood, this book blends in-depth art historical analysis with sustained theoretical exploration of topics such as surrealist temporality, toys, play, nostalgia, memory, and 20th-century constructions of the child. The result is an entirely new approach to the surrealist tradition via its engagement with "childish things."

Providing what the author describes as a "long history of surrealism," this book plots a trajectory from surrealism itself to the art of the 1980s and 1990s, through to the present day. It addresses a range of figures from Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Hans Bellmer, Joseph Cornell, and Helen Levitt, at one end of the spectrum, to Louise Bourgeois, Eduardo Paolozzi, Claes Oldenburg, Susan Hiller, Martin Sharp, Helen Chadwick, Mike Kelley, and Jeff Koons, at the other.

 

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