Surrealism In and Out

Foster, it should be noted, portrays the marvellous as the projection
of 'unconscious and repressed material' toward the outside world

abandoning of the noble, ideal and 'liberatory' was a matter of programme
and principle

Hal Foster, Compulsive Beauty (Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, 1993)

Hal Foster has
challenged or qualified this critical commonplace, suggesting how classic
Surrealist art dredges up not only erotic desire but also such troubling
phenomena as the compulsive repetition of trauma, considered by Freud a
manifestation of the death drive.

The Sixties
climate of innovation and investigation meant that aesthetic practices and
ideas that had traditionally been the preserve of the cultural margins could
now be transposed to the mainstream

If one strand of New Wave experimentation
headed in the direction of an ever-greater verisimilitude, the other tended
towards fantasy, formal play and the exploration of the inner life.

that avant-garde has not explicitly identified its work as Surrealist

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