Literature, Art and the Pursuit of Decay in Twentieth-Century France

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Cambridge University Press, 19 jan 2006 - 248 pagina's
Timothy Mathews examines work by a range of writers and painters working in France in the twentieth century. This well-illustrated book engages with canonical figures-- Guillaume Apollinaire, Marguerite Duras and Jean Genet, Roland Barthes, Pablo Picasso and René Magritte--as well as more neglected individuals including Robert Desnos and Jean Fautrier. Integrating theoretical and material approaches to reading and viewing, Mathews engages with the distinctive features of different literary genres and different types of painting to develop an original history of artistic ambition in twentieth-century France.

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the Surrealism of Robert
65
on some paintings by René Magritte
89
Jean Fautrier Les Otages
114
conflict community and collapse
153
Epilogue
192
Notes
198
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Timothy Mathews is Professor in the French Department at University College London. He is the author of Reading Apollinaire: Theories of Poetic Language (1987) and co-editor of Violence, Théorie, Surréalisme (1994).

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