ABSTRACT

David Bate examines automatism and the photographic image, the Surrealist passion for insanity, ambivalent use of Orientalism, use of Sadean philosophy and the effect of fascism of the Surrealists. The book is illustrated wtih a wide range of surrealist photographs.

chapter |20 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|33 pages

What is a surrealist photograph?

chapter 2|34 pages

The automatic image

chapter 3|24 pages

Sadness and sanity

chapter 4|33 pages

The Oriental signifier

chapter 5|27 pages

The Sadean eye

chapter 6|31 pages

Black object, white subject 1

chapter 7|32 pages

The truth of the colonies

chapter 8|20 pages

Fascism and exile