Minor Aesthetics(English, Paperback, Bleyen Mieke)

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Minor Aesthetics(English, Paperback, Bleyen Mieke) is written by Bleyen Mieke and published by Leuven University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9058679683 (ISBN 10) and 9789058679680 (ISBN 13).

New perspectives on Belgian Surrealism and the photographic practices of Marcel Marien. Marcel Marien (1920-1993) was a key figure of Belgian post-war Surrealism. He is widely acknowledged for his landmark work on Belgian Surrealism and his collaboration with future Situationists like Guy-Ernest Debord in his journal 'Les Levres nues'. Nevertheless, Marien's texts, collages, photographs, film, and (art?) objects have to date remained understudied. This is the first volume devoted to Marien's photographic work. Through a series of close readings, Mieke Bleyen connects the collage and photographic practices of Marien with his wider oeuvre, particularly with his archival and editorial activities. By applying Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's concept of the 'minor', this book proposes an alternative reading of Marien's anti-aesthetics and focuses on the affective range of his work. The figure of Marien also serves as a case study that offers new perspectives on Belgian Surrealism's relation to mainstream Surrealism and the role of photography within Surrealism. This volume, moreover, raises a critique on 'major' art history's conception of time as linear progression and argues instead for twisted and extended temporalities in the case of Marcel Marien. With previously unpublished images from Marien's private archive. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).