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A VERNACULAR VANGUARD:
SURREALISM AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN ART HISTORY
by
Sandra R. Zalman
_______________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(ART HISTORY)
December 2008
Copyright 2008 Sandra R. Zalman
Object Description
| Title | A vernacular vanguard: surrealism and the making of American art history |
| Author | Zalman, Sandra R. |
| Author email | zalman@usc.edu; sandraz16@hotmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Art History |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-08-22 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-12-15 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Troy, Nancy |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Meyer, Richard Schwartz, Vanessa |
| Abstract | This dissertation contends that Surrealism in the United States came to represent a meeting point of art and society that persistently affected developing theories of modernism and attitudes toward common culture. As such, it represents a major underlying force of American art history, a localized site where ongoing debates -- about abstraction and representation, consumerism, the place of politics in art, the role of the museum, the aesthetics of photography and visual culture -- are all tested and contested. Approaching Surrealism from the perspective of the audience -- the networks of critics, collectors, and the public, who all come together not only in the context of an exhibition, but also in the market -- this dissertation re-evaluates the impact of Surrealism in themaking of an American artistic culture, as it was used both to define and dismantle dominant critical theories in American art history, from Alfred Barr and Clement Greenberg in the 1930s, to William Rubin, Max Kozloff and Harold Rosenberg in the 1960s and Rosalind Krauss, Douglas Crimp and Hal Foster in the 1980s. Because Surrealism represents an important site of debate for contemporary artistic practice, especially as a crossroads of high and low culture, this dissertation explicitly takes on the question of Surrealism's value not as much as an art movement in and of itself, but for art criticism, mass culture, and the art market in the United States. Broadly conceived, this study asserts that the landscape of American art history would look fundamentally different without Surrealism's persistent presence, buttressing, and coming up against, the arguments that make art modern. |
| Keyword | surrealism; Museum of Modern Art; Alfred Barr; William Rubin; Rosalind Krauss; Salvador Dali; Rene Magritte; Clement Greenberg; pop; photography market |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1930/1990 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1925 |
| Rights | Zalman, Sandra R. |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Zalman-2109 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume23/etd-Zalman-2109.pdf |
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| Full text | A VERNACULAR VANGUARD: SURREALISM AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN ART HISTORY by Sandra R. Zalman _______________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ART HISTORY) December 2008 Copyright 2008 Sandra R. Zalman |
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