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This is the story of Surrealism's remarkable evolution during its years in America, from a fiercely leftist, strongly literary avant-garde movement into an apolitical, almost exclusively visual style. Exploring both "high" & "low" cultural perspectives, Dickran Tashjian shows how the American avant-garde selectively filtered & reshaped European Surrealism to meet its own agendas, & how it in turn was reinterpreted, depoliticized, & commercially exploited by mainstream American culture & the fashion/advertising industry.Tashjian, Dickran is the author of 'Boatload of Madmen Surrealism and the American Avant-Garde, 1920-1950' with ISBN 9780500282854 and ISBN 0500282854.
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