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(2005) Blanchot's vigilance, Dordrecht, Springer.
It is easy to understand Surrealism as a failure-as the moment in which the artistic vanguard could have realised itself. In one sense, its achievements are clear; they fill our museums. But the Surrealists sought something greater: the abolition of an art that would hold itself apart from the revolutionary struggle of the proletariat. Surrealism might seem to have survived only as a style, yet its task was not to change art, but to realise it by freeing it from the artistic field, drawing out the consequences of an artistic obsolescence the Dadaists had already understood, and rendering it political.
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Iyer, L. (2005). The inexhaustible murmur, in Blanchot's vigilance, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 50-88.
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