Andre Breton and the modern art of collecting
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- While André Breton's (1896-1966) literary contributions to Surrealism have long been recognized within scholarship, his multifaceted collecting practices have generally been overlooked. Over the course of his career, Breton would assemble a private collection that consisted of more than 10,000 diverse and multivalent objects within his atelier at 42 rue Fontaine, where he lived for more than forty years. My dissertation, "André Breton and the Modern Art of Collecting, " adjusts the terms by which Breton is traditionally understood by tracing the evolution of his personal collection and his activities as a collector, beginning with his leadership of the Surrealist movement in the 1920s and 1930s; through his relationship during World War II with anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss; and culminating with Breton's imagined exploratory "voyage" around his densely packed atelier in 1966. Collecting—as an aesthetic practice, a set of material processes, and a method—emerges as a principal lens through which to interpret Breton's vital and interrelated activities as a poet, critic, curator, and creator of objects. Drawing from unpublished archival material and supported by object-based research and literary analysis, this study offers new ways to understand the role of collecting within Breton's creative production, Surrealism, and, by extension, the historical avant-garde
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | O'Hanlan, Sean Theodora |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Troy, Nancy J |
| Thesis advisor | Troy, Nancy J |
| Thesis advisor | Marrinan, Michael |
| Thesis advisor | Meyer, Richard, 1966- |
| Thesis advisor | Nemerov, Alexander |
| Degree committee member | Marrinan, Michael |
| Degree committee member | Meyer, Richard, 1966- |
| Degree committee member | Nemerov, Alexander |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Sean Theodora O'Hanlan |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Art and Art History |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Sean Theodora O'Hanlan
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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