About this title: An examination of the darker forces underlying the Surrealist Movement's devotion to the project of love and liberation. Foster reads Surrealism from the other side: art given over to the uncanny, the compulsion to repeat, and the death drive.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780262061605ISBN:0262061600
Description: Like New. Book appears unread. Pages are clean and unmarked; binding, square and tight. Dust jacket shows modest rubbing from shelf wear. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Mit Pr
Date Published: 1995-05-01
ISBN-13:9780262560818ISBN:026256081X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780262560818ISBN:026256081X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780262061605ISBN:0262061600
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Hardcover. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First Edition. An OCTOBER Book. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover; gray cloth; gilt titles; 313 pp.; illustrated in b/w; one short closed tear in jacket; else a clean and crisp copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780262061605ISBN:0262061600
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Hardcover. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First Edition. An OCTOBER Book. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover; gray cloth; gilt titles; 313 pp.; illustrated in b/w; very slight wear to extremities, else a clean and crisp copy. Protected in an archival Brodart cover. read more
Edition: First paperback edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: MIT Press; An October Book, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780262560818ISBN:026256081X
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xxi, 313 pp., illus., bib. notes, index; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. A reprint of the author's PhD dissertation. Foster interprets Surrealist art using Freud's notion of the "uncanny" and also borrows heavily from the German Marxist thinker, Walter Benjamin, on the redemptive possibilities of the "outmoded. " "Surrealism has long been seen as its founder, André Breton, wanted it to be seen: as a movement of love and liberation. In ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780262560818ISBN:026256081X
Description: Very Good- 026256081x. Severe stress to book; crushing does not affect readability or binding. Overall a very clean and tight copy, internally pristine with NO markings, binding tight. Artists. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.; October Books; 0.8 x 8.9 x 6.9 Inches; 344 pages. read more
Description: Good. 0262061600 TITLE: Compulsive BeautyAUTHOR: Foster, HalISBN 10: 0262061600ISBN 13: 9780262061605BINDING: Hardback with Dust JacketPUBLICATION DATE: 1993PAGES: 313DESCRIPTION: Used book in good or better condition. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date Published: 1995-03-27
ISBN-13:9780262560818ISBN:026256081X
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mit Pr
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780262560818ISBN:026256081X
Description: New. Surrealism has long been seen as its founder, Andre Breton, wanted it to be seen: as a movement of love and liberation. In "Compulsive Beauty, " Foster reads surrealism from its other, darker side: as an art given over to the uncanny, to the compulsio... read more
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