Minor Aesthetics: The Photographic Work of Marcel Marien

Marcel Marien (1920–1993) was a key figure of Belgian postwar surrealism. He is widely acknowledged for his landmark work on Belgian surrealism and his collaboration with future Situationists including Guy-Ernest Debord in his journal Les Lèvres 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…