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The subversion of images : notes illustrated with nineteen photographs by the author
- Title
- The subversion of images : notes illustrated with nineteen photographs by the author / Paul Nougé ; translated by M. Kasper ; with an afterword by Xavier Canonne.
- Author
- Nougé, Paul
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Wakefield Press, [2019]
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- Description
- 51 pages : illustrations; 18 cm
- Summary
- First edited and published by Marcel Marien in 1968 in a limited edition of 230 copies, half a year after Paul Nougé's death, The Subversion of Images is a miniature classic in both the photobook and surrealist canons. It collects Nougé's notes and photographs from 1929-30 to form a guidebook to the surrealist image. Nougé here outlines his conception of the object and the surrealist approach to it, while also offering an accompaniment to the visual work of his colleague, René Magritte, whose paintings he sometimes titled. How might a tangle of string elicit terror? How might the suppression of an object move one to sentimentality? What is the effect of a pair of gloves on a loaf of sliced bread? Nougé's accompanying photographs explore these notions, and feature a number of his Belgian surrealist colleagues. This translation is presented as a facsimile of the original edition, with an afterword by Xavier Canonne, director of the Musée de la Photographie.
- Uniform Title
- Subversion des images. English
- Alternative Title
- Subversion des images.
- Paul Nougé : the subversion of images
- Subject
- Note
- Translated from the French.
- Originally published by Marcel Mariën in 1968 as Subversion des images.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- JQC 20-55
- ISBN
- 9781939663474
- 1939663474
- OCLC
- 1126182623
- Author
- Nougé, Paul, author.
- Title
- The subversion of images : notes illustrated with nineteen photographs by the author / Paul Nougé ; translated by M. Kasper ; with an afterword by Xavier Canonne.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Wakefield Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Kasper, M. (Michael), 1947- translator.Canonne, Xavier, writer of afterword.
- Research Call Number
- JQC 20-55