Objects of Desire: Surrealist Collecting and the Art of the Pacific Northwest Coast

• Main Author: Davis, Karl J
• Other Authors: Harris, Steven (Art and Design), Lowrey, Kathleen (Anthropology), Greer, Joan (Art and Design)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Alberta. Department of Art and Design. 2014
• Subjects: art; anthro-se; Pacific; Strauss; First Nations; tlingit; Tsimshian; Tsimshian*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10402/era.37769

Specialization: History of Art, Design and Visual Culture Degree: Master of Arts Abstract: This thesis is an examination of four figures connected to the surrealist movement: André Breton, Kurt Seligmann, Wolfgang Paalen, and the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss and their interest in art and objec...