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Through an examination of surrealist photographs, objects, exhibitions, activities, and writings, the essays in "Twilight Visions", the beautifully illustrated companion volume to the exhibition of the same name, portray the French capital as a city in the process of metamorphosis-in a kind of twilight state. The Bureau of Surrealist Research, the major Surrealist exhibitions, and the photographs of Paris by Brassai, Andre Kertesz, Ilse Bing, Germaine Krull, and Man Ray, among others, all reflect the tumultuous social and cultural transformations occurring in Paris in the 1920s and 30s. Juxtaposing the strange with the familiar, they seek to break down repressive hierarchies. At the same time, they represent a desire to change the world through experimental activities. Introduced by Therese Lichtenstein, with essays by Therese Lichtenstein, Julia Kelly, Colin Jones, and Whitney Chadwick, this absorbing volume considers the social, aesthetic, and political stances of the Surrealists as they probed hidden aspects of the commonplace and blurred the boundaries between dreams and reality, subjectivity and objectivity. This title is co published by Frist Center for the Visual Arts.

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Book category Books in English The arts History of art / art & design styles History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

• Full title: Twilight Visions
• Author: Therese Lichtenstein
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780520271272
• ISBN: 0520271270
• ID: 04409370
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 672 g
• Dimensions: 222 × 222 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. July 2011

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