Dali and Postmodernism

This Is Not an Essence

• Author(s): Marc J. LaFountain, Marc J.. Lafountain,
• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Pages: 173
• ISBN_10: 0791433250
  ISBN_13: 9780791433256
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / History / General , Art / Criticism & Theory , Art / Individual Artists / General ,

Description:... By taking Dali's "paranoiac-critical method" to the delirious extents Dali himself recommended, LaFountain demonstrates that Dali's Surrealism anticipates tactics practiced by postmodern and poststructural critics. In particular, LaFountain advances the notion that "phantom meaning" displaced Surrealism's "phantom object," thereby creating a crisis of the subject and the object far in excess of that sought by Surrealist revolutionaries. Focusing on Dali's magnificent painting, Endless Enigma, LaFountain inaugurates "New Dali Studies" by offering an original interpretation of Dali's close, yet strained, relationship with André Breton and the Surrealist canon.