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  The Passive Vampire (Art Lit) (Paperback) By (author) Luca Gherasim, Illustrated by Luca Gherasim, Translated by Fijalkowski Krzysztof

  

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  Short Description for The Passive VampireOriginally published in 1945 by Les ditions de l'Oubli in Bucharest, The Passive Vampire caught the attention of the French Surrealists when an excerpt appeared in 1947 in the magazine La part du sable. Luca, whose work was admired by Gilles Deleuze, attempts here to transmit the "shudder" evoked by some Surrealist texts, such as Andr Breton's Nadja and Mad Love, probing with acerbic humor the fra
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  • Publisher: Twisted Spoon Press
  • Published: 01 March 2009
  • Format: Paperback 140 pages
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  • Categories: General | Individual Artists, Art Monographs | Photographs: Collections | Prose: Non-fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9788086264318 ISBN 10: 8086264319
  • Sales rank: 219,588

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• Poetry. Art. Translated by Krzysztof Fijalkowski. Originally published in 1945 by Les Editions de l'Oubli in Bucharest, THE PASSIVE VAMPIRE caught the attention of the French Surrealists when an excerpt appeared in 1947 alongside texts by Jabes and Michaux in Georges Henein's magazine La part du sable. Luca, whose work was admired by Gilles Deleuze, attempts here to transmit the "shudder" evoked by some Surrealist texts, such as Andre Breton's Nadja and Mad Love, probing with acerbic humor the fragile boundary between "objective chance" and delirium. Impossible to define, THE PASSIVE VAMPIRE is a mixture of theoretical treatise and breathless poetic prose, personal confession and scientific investigation -- it is 18 photographs of "objectively offered objects," a category created by Luca to occupy the space opened up by Breton. At times taking shape as assemblages, these objects are meant to capture chance in its dynamic and dramatic forms by externalizing the ambivalence of our drives and bringing to light the nearly continual equivalence between our love-hate tendencies and the world of things.