The Curatorial Avant-Garde: Surrealism and Exhibition Practice in France, 1925 1941

by Adam Jolles

Book Overview

All too often, the historical avant-garde is taken to be incommensurate with and antithetical to the world inhabited by the museum. In The Curatorial Avant-Garde, by contrast, Adam Jolles demonstrates the surrealists' radical transformation of the ways in which spectators encountered works of art between the wars. From their introduction in Paris in 1925, surrealist exhibitions dissolved the conventional boundaries between visual media, language,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271059397
• ISBN13: 9780271059396
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.1" x 9.4"