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Article: Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- March 22, 2007
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Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War, by Robin Addle Greeley. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2006. vii, 261 pp. $60.00 US (cloth).
If taken on its own terms, as a study of the relations between surrealism and the Spanish Civil War, Robin Greeley's book is rather flawed, for it rests on some reductive views of surrealism that affect the course and nature of its analysis. If, however, we think of it as a triangulated study of the surrealist movement, the Spanish Civil War, and a number of artists loosely associated with or influenced by surrealism, then it becomes quite good, even brilliant at times; Greeley's discussion of Pablo Picasso's 1937 ...