Subversion of Images: Notes Illustrated with Nineteen Photographs by the Author

Title: Subversion of Images: Notes Illustrated with Nineteen Photographs by the Author Author: Nouge, Paul ISBN: 9781939663474 Publisher: Wakefield Press Published: 2020 Binding: Quality Language: English Condition: New Essays 1209384 Publisher Description: This classic surrealist photobook pioneered the imagery of the domestic uncanny 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 mo