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- Title
Dark Toys: Surrealism and the Culture of Childhood by David Hopkins (review).
- Authors
Susik, Abigail
- Abstract
If the Venice Biennale's embrace of surrealism (via Carrington) as somehow emblematic of both the past and present can be seen as an indication of surrealism's growing cultural currency in the years leading up to its centenary in 2024, then a new and expansively erudite study by art historian David Hopkins can help us get to the bottom of what exactly such cultural ascendancy for surrealism means. Today, when the field of surrealism studies is replete with new publications and burgeoning with international activity and blockbuster exhibitions, I Dark Toys i heralds a future horizon of adventurous transhistorical comparative approaches for scholarship. The photograph on the cover of I Dark Toys i evokes something of the fraught nature of surrealism's investment in childhood that Hopkins unflinchingly addresses in his account.
- Subjects
SURREALISM; TOYS
- Publication
Modernism/Modernity, 2022, Vol 29, Issue 3, p677
- ISSN
1071-6068
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mod.2022.0028