DISPLAYING THE MARVELOUS

Surrealism in its late phase often abandoned neutral exhibition spaces in favor of environments that embodied subjective ideologies. These exhibitions offered startled viewers an early version of installation art before the form existed as such. In Displaying the Marvelous, Lewis Kachur explores this development by analyzing three elaborate Surrealist installations created between 1938 and 194 2.The book considers Marcel Duchamp and Salvador Dali, two artists who are not usually compared, within a common framework.