SurrealistArtandThoughtinthe1930s:Art,Politics,andthePsyche

SurrealistArtandThoughtinthe1930sexaminestheintersectionofHegelianaesthetics,experimentalartandpoetry,MarxismandpsychoanalysisinthetheoryandpracticeoftheSurrealistmovement.LocatingSurrealistartandthoughtbetweenmodernistartandrevolutionarypolitics,StevenHarrisinvestigatestheconsequencesoftheSurrealists'effortstosynthesizethesediverseconcerns,throughtheinvention,in1931,oftheobjectandintherecastingoftheiractivitiesasamodeofrevolutionaryscience.ProvidingacontextfortheculturalandpoliticaldebatesinFranceandtheSovietUnionduringthe1930s,healsoanalyzesthedebateonproletarianliterature,theSurrealists'reactiontothePopularFront,andtheireventualdefenseofanexperimentalmodernartfollowingtheirbreakwiththeFrenchCommunistPartyin1935.