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By Seán Hand

ISBN-10: 0521026024

ISBN-13: 9780521026024

ISBN-10: 0521495741

ISBN-13: 9780521495745

this can be the 1st full-length research in English of Michel Leiris's paintings. usually stated as a valuable determine in modern French tradition, Leiris used to be a good author whose double profession as ethnographer and artistic author areas him at small print of intersection inside of French cultural background. Seán Hand explores Leiris's energetic participation in one of the most notable highbrow and inventive hobbies of the 20th century: surrealism within the twenties, ethnography within the thirties and existentialism within the forties. Hand locates his writing in those various contexts when it comes to the key creative, political and philosophical techniques of the interval. He is going directly to argue that Leiris's multi-volume autobiography l. a. Règle du jeu stands because the version type of self-enquiry within the 20th century. extra greatly, Hand explores Leiris's carrying on with obsession with the suggestion of 'presence'. knowledgeable by way of fresh severe theories, Hand bargains a multi disciplinary method of this fascinating writer.

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