SURREALISM AND THE POLITICS OF EROS 1938

In this rigorous and highly original history, Alyce Mahon provides a radically new assessment of French Surrealism. Contrary to the orthodox idea of a terminal decline for the movement after the 1930s, she describes an artistic renaissance in the war and postwar y ears as the Surrealists redefined and extended their interests in social crisis, political engagement, transgressive art, myth, the occult and the erotic.