Product Description: Art. This splendid volume expands upon and extends the work initiated by Renee Rises Hubert in Surrealism and the Book (UC Press, 1987) by focusing acute critical attention on recent contemporary artists' books. Illustrated. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An early surrealist work parodies a popular seventeenth century educational epic and explores the meaning of language

Product Description: This is the first paperback edition in English of one of the most important and entertaining works of Surrealist fiction. Aragon’s 1922 novel boldly appropriates the title and plot of a didactic seventeenth-century epic, recounting the adventures of Odysseus’ son Telemachus; but the moralistic underpinnings of the original are replaced by a Surrealist’s dedication to the strange, the beautiful and the erotic...read more

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Product Description: Arguing against the notion that theatrical success depends upon a spectator's suspension of disbelief, this study emphasizes the audience's recognition of theatre as theatre, of rhetorical categories, and of the by-play between mimetic representation and explicit artistic conventions...read more