
In this attempt to make sense of the way surrealism sees, conceals, poses, and stares at its own self and the selves of others, this text examines the decors, games, portraits, transformations, and mirrorings that establish Surrealism's links to Baroque forms of representation...

How we look at Surrealism, how it looks at the objects it encounters, and how it looks from here: all these looks intertwine in this study linking Surrealism and the Baroque. Le look (whatever it might be): you have it or you don't, and Surrealism had it all the way. The emotional...