Minor Aesthetics

New perspectives on Belgian Surrealism and the photographic practices of Marcel Marin. Marcel Marin (19201993) 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 Lvres nues. Nevertheless, Marins texts, collages, photographs, film, and (art?) objects have to date remained understudied. This is the first volume devoted to Marin's photographic work. Through a series of close readings, Mieke Bleyen connects the collage and photographic practices of Marin with his wider oeuvre, particularly with his archival and editorial activities. By applying Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari's concept of the minor, this book proposes an alternative reading of Marins anti-aesthetics and focuses on the affective range of his work. The figure of Marin 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 Marin. With previously unpublished images from Marin's private archive. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).