Brassai: Images of Culture and the Surrealist Observer (Modernist Studies)

By Marja Warehime

Book Overview

In this study of Brassai's complete oeuvre, the author analyzes Brassai's paradoxical position between documentary realism and surrealism in the France of the 1930s. She stresses the subjects he pursued most passionately: the shadowy Paris night, urban graffiti and the nature of creative genius.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807122769
• ISBN13: 9780807122761
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.5"