Displaying the Marvelous: Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, and Surrealist Exhibition Installations

by Lewis Kachur

How the exhibition spaces of Surrealism anticipated installation art.

Surrealism in its late phase often abandoned neutral exhibition spaces in favor of environments that embodied subjective ideologies. These exhibitions offered startled viewers an early version of installation art before the form existed as such. In Displaying the Marvelous, Lewis Kachur explores this development by analyzing three elaborate Surrealist installations created...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262611821
• ISBN13: 9780262611824
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Mit Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher