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The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde

By: Alyce Mahon

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The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde

By: Alyce Mahon

This is the first book to examine the cultural history of Marquis de Sade's (1740-1814) philosophical ideas and their lasting influence on political and artistic debates. An icon of free expression, Sade lived through France's Reign of Terror, and his writings offer both a pitiless mirror on humanity and a series of subversive metaphors that allow for the exploration of political, sexual, and psychological terror. Generations of avant-garde writers and artists have responded to Sade's philosophy as a means of liberation and as a radical engagement with social politics and sexual desire, writing fiction modelled on Sade's novels, illustrating luxury editions of his works, and translating his ideas into film, photography, and painting. In The Sadean Imagination, Alyce Mahon examines how Sade used images and texts as forms that could explore and dramatize the concept of terror on political, physical, and psychic levels, and how avant-garde artists have continued to engage in a complex dialogue with his works. Studying Sade's influence on art from the French Revolution through the twentieth century, Mahon examines works ranging from Anne Desclos's The Story of O, to images, texts, and films by Man Ray, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean-Jacques Lebel, and Peter Brook. She also discusses writings and responses to Sade by feminist theorists including Angela Carter and Judith Butler. Throughout, she shows how Sade's work challenged traditional artistic expectations and pushed the boundaries of the body and the body politic, inspiring future artists, writers, and filmmakers to imagine and portray the unthinkable"--

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Princeton University Press

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0691141614

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9780691141619

Surrealism and the Politics of Eros, 1938-1968

By: Alyce Mahon

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Surrealism and the Politics of Eros, 1938-1968

By: Alyce Mahon

A radical history of French surrealism seeks to demonstrate that the movement was transformed during and after World War II when Surrealists redefined and extended their interests in politics, the occult, erotica, and other areas, in an account that analyzes the conception and organization of four international exhibits.

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240

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0500238219

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9780500238219

J.O. Francis, Realist Drama and Ethics

Culture, Place and Nation

By: Alyce von Rothkirch

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J.O. Francis, Realist Drama and Ethics

Culture, Place and Nation

By: Alyce von Rothkirch

This book rediscovers and re-evaluates the work of the Welsh dramatist J. O. Francis (1882–1954) and his contribution to the development of Welsh drama in the twentieth century. More than a prize-winning dramatist, whose plays were performed all over the world, Francis can also be described as one of the founding fathers of modern Welsh drama, whose work has helped establish theatrical realism on the Welsh stage. His creative non-fiction for the popular press and for radio gives a unique perspective on how Wales was seen through the eyes of a perceptive London-Welsh observer. Using much previously unpublished material, this volume is an excellent introduction to one of Wales’s foremost dramatists, and is innovative in the way that it creates a picture of the amateur dramatic scene of south Wales (1920–40) based on sound statistical analysis of available evidence. It situates Francis’s work in its cultural context and brings this exciting period in Welsh cultural history to life in its introduction to a new audience.

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University of Wales Press

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1783162023

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9781783162024

The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde

By: Alyce Mahon

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Princeton University Press

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Maria Martins: Tropical Fictions

By: Isabella Rjeille

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Maria Martins: Tropical Fictions

By: Isabella Rjeille

Eroticism and Amazonian mythologies in the sculpture of an overlooked Brazilian Surrealist A leading figure in New York's Surrealist circles and in Latin American modernism, the Brazilian artist Maria Martins (1894-1973) was known for her bronze sculptures of hybrid and mythological figures. Through her marriage to a Brazilian diplomat, Martins built a large part of her career outside Brazil, having lived in New York in the 1940s, when she was part of the city's expat Surrealist community. This survey examines Martins' central and active role in Surrealism (in a counterpart to the narratives about her romantic involvement with Duchamp), her interpretation of Amazonian mythologies and iconography from the outset of her career, and her female perspective on themes of desire and eroticism.

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Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo / Kmec Books

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6557770101

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9786557770108

Book's by Alyce Mahon

The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde

The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde

Surrealism and the Politics of Eros, 1938-1968

Surrealism and the Politics of Eros, 1938-1968

J.O. Francis, Realist Drama and Ethics

J.O. Francis, Realist Drama and Ethics

The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde

The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde

Maria Martins: Tropical Fictions

Maria Martins: Tropical Fictions

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