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The Beribboned Bomb
Robert James Belton
其他書名
The Image of Woman in Male Surrealist Art
出版University of Calgary Press, 1995
主題Art / GeneralArt / Criticism & TheoryArt / History / GeneralArt / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)Art / Subjects & Themes / GeneralArt / Subjects & Themes / Human Figure
ISBN18951765499781895176544
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=a2uqfJrAzy4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Surrealism was ostensibly directed at the emancipation of the human spirit, but it represented only male aspirations and fantasies until a number of women artists began to redefine its agenda in the later 1930s. This book addresses the former, using a "thick description" of the historically specific circumstances which required the male Surrealists to manufacture a sexual reputation of narcissism and misogyny. These circumstances were determined by "hegemonic masculinity," an ideological construct which had little to do with individual masculinities. In male Surrealism, the "beribboned bomb" signified something both attractive and volatile, a specific instance of the Surrealist principle of convulsive beauty. In hegemonic masculinity, similar devices served as metaphors of the sexuality all men were supposed to possess. The intersection of these two axes produced an imagery of unrepentant violence.