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  • Surrealist Landscape in the American West

    Surrealist Landscape in the American West by Kavky, Samantha;

    Series: Routledge Research in Art History;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 16 December 2025

    • ISBN 9781032368504
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages166 pages
    • Size 246x174 mm
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 37 Illustrations, black & white; 20 Illustrations, color; 37 Halftones, black & white; 20 Halftones, color
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    Short description:

    Focusing on the period of the Second World War, this book explores the emergence of surrealist landscape as a genre throughout the period of surrealist exile in the Americas.

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    Long description:

    Focusing on the period of the Second World War, this book explores the emergence of surrealist landscape as a genre throughout the period of surrealist exile in the Americas.


    By positioning surrealist landscape within the formal, iconographic and theoretical strategies of the larger movement as well as within the historical context of war and exile, the volume encompasses critical and historical discussions from a broad spectrum of interrelated fields including psychology, anthropology, military history, art history and ecocriticism. Central to this book are the landscapes of Max Ernst who, along with transplanted European surrealists, Wolfgang Paalen and Kurt Seligmann, revitalized a Romantic image of the American landscape and its indigenous peoples, divorced from, and as a challenge to, European nationalism. American surrealists Dorothea Tanning and Kay Sage challenged traditional analogies between the earth and the female body retained by their male partners. Other European surrealists such as Salvador Dali and Yves Tanguy perpetuated the appropriation of the desert as a generic space for visionary projection.


    The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, surrealism, ecocriticism, American studies, and feminist studies.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction  1. Surrealist Landscape as a Genre, No Man’s Land  2. Surrealist Landscape Between the Wars: Nature Devouring  3. Romantic Transplants: Surrealist Landscape in the Americas in the 1940s  4. The Dangerous Deserts of Dorothea Tanning and Kay Sage  5. Camouflage and World War II  6. Surrealism in the Desert

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