Full Description
This title was first published in 2003. Drawing on literary, art historical and historical studies, this essay collection explores the complex encounter between culture and politics within Surrealism. The Surrealist movement was one of the first cultural movements to question explicitly the relation between culture and politics, and its attempt to fuse social and cultural revolution has been a critical factor in shaping our sense of modernity. This anthology addresses not only the contested ground between culture and politics within Surrealism itself, and within the subsequent historical accounts of the movement, but also the broader implications of this encounter on our own sense of modernity. Its goal is to delineate the role of radical politics in shaping the historical trajectory of Surrealism.
Contents
Revolution by night - surrealism, politics and culture, Raymond Spiteri and Don LaCoss; The politics of Surrealism, 1920-36, Robert Short; Towards a new construction: Breton's break with Dada and the formation of surrealism, Theresa Papanikolas; Surrealism and the political physiognomy of the marvellous, Raymond Spiteri; Advertising Surrealist masculinities - Andr Kert sz in Paris, Amy Lyford; Surrealism noir, Jonathan P. Eburne; Surrealist racial politics at the borders of reason - whiteness, primitivism, and negritude, Amanda Stansell; Painting and politics - Miro's Still Life with Old Shoe and the Spanish Republic, Robert S. Lubar; Of Politics, postcards and pornography - Salvador Dali's Le mythe tragique de l'Angelus de Millet, Jordana Mendelson; Surrealism in 1938 - The Exhibition at War, Elena Filipovic; For an Independent Revolutionary Art - Breton, Trotsky and Mexico, Robin Adele Greeley; Aime Cesaire's insurrectionary poetics, E. San Juan, Jr; Hans Bellmer's libidinal politics, Alyce Mahon; Attacks of the fantastic, Don LaCoss; Failure and community - preliminary questions on the political in the culture of Surrealism, M. Stone-Richards. Appendix I: Notes in the hand of L on Pierre-Quint being the record of a conversation, Theodore Fraenkel.
