Dali and Postmodernism: This Is Not an Essence (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780791433263)

By taking Dali's "paranoiac-critical method" to the delirious extents Dali himself recommended, LaFountain demonstrates that Dali's Surrealism anticipates tactics practiced by postmodern and poststructural critics. In particular, LaFountain advances the notion that "phantom meaning" displaced Surrealism's "phantom object," thereby creating a crisis of the subject and the object far in excess of that sought by Surrealist revolutionaries. Focusing on Dali's magnificent painting, Endless Enigma, LaFountain inaugurates "New Dali Studies" by offering an original interpretation of Dali's close, yet strained, relationship with Andr? Breton and the Surrealist canon.

Author: Marc J. Lafountain
ISBN-10: 0791433269
ISBN-13: 9780791433263
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Published: 04/25/1997
Pages: 173
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.83w x 0.43d