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The Curatorial Avant-Garde

Name: The Curatorial Avant-Garde
Brand: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780271059396
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PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780271059396

Surrealism and Exhibition Practice in France, 1925-1941

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By Adam Jolles
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: June 14, 2014
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Pages: 288

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Explores the emergence of an amateur class of curators in France between the world wars. Focuses on the Surrealist writers and artists who developed an alternative curatorial practice to that pursued by the community of professionally trained curators and exclusive art dealers.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Curatorial Avant-Garde

1 Breaking the Silence

2 Denouncing de Chirico

3 Colonists by Vocation

4 The Tactile Turn

5 The Artist as Dealer

Conclusion: Looking Back on Adorno

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

“There are many valuable insights to be gained from Jolles’s richly researched study. The book also displays impressive production values, with a knowing nod towards ‘The New Typography’ and several archive images that are brightly rejuvenated through digital scanning.”

—Robert Radford, Burlington Magazine

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