Photography and Surrealism: Sexuality, Colonialism and Social Dissent
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Photography and Surrealism: Sexuality, Colonialism and Social Dissent[1] (2003) is a book by David Bate. The chapter "The Sadean Eye" has a good overview of Sade and Surrealism. The chapter opens with Novalis's dictum "it is strange that the true source of cruelty should be desire".
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Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1. What is a surrealist photograph?; 2. The automatic image; 3. Sadness and sanity; 4. The Oriental siginifer; 5. The Sadean eye; 6. Black object, white subject; 7. The truth of the colonies; 8. Fascism and exile; Bibliography; Picture Credits; Index.
From the publisher:
- This clear and challenging re-evaluation of the status and usage of photographic images in historical surrealism puts surrealism's fundamental issues back into the framework of its historical purpose and function. David Bate asks what a surrealist photograph actually is. He discusses such issues as automatism and the photographic image, the surrealist passion for insanity, their ambivalent use of Orientalism and adoption of Sadean philosophy as well as the effect of fascism on the surrealists. Seeking to locate the use of photography by surrealists within the cultural discourses of that history.
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