Compulsive Beauty (October Series)

By Hal Foster

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262061600
• ISBN13: 9780262061605
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 7.5"