Surrealism
Published on 12. August 2021
Book
Hardback
350 pages
978-1-108-49568-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines the salient ideas and practices that have shaped Surrealism as a protean intellectual and cultural concept that fundamentally shifted our understanding of the nexus between art, culture, and politics. By bringing a diverse set of artistic forms and practices such as literature, manifestos, collage, photography, film, fashion, display, and collecting into conversation with newly emerging intellectual traditions (ethnography, modern science, anthropology, and psychoanalysis), the essays in this volume reveal Surrealism's enduring influence on contemporary thought and culture alongside its anti-colonial political position and international reach. Surrealism's fascination with novel forms of cultural production and experimental methods contributed to its conceptual malleability and temporal durability, making it one of the most significant avant-garde movements of the twentieth century. The book traces how Surrealism's urgent political and aesthetic provocations have bequeathed an important legacy for recent scholarly interest in thing theory, critical vitalism, new materialism, ontology, and animal/human studies.
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'An excellent volume ... Highly recommended.' J. E. Housefield, ChoiceMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
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Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 203 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-49568-4 (9781108495684)
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Natalya Lusty is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne and an ARC Future Fellow. She is the author of Surrealism, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (2017), co-editor of Modernism and Masculinity (2014) and Photography and Ontology: Unsettling Images (2019), and on the editorial collective for the International Journal of Surrealism.
Content
Part I. Origins Ideas/Concepts/Interventions: 1. The surrealist world Effie Rentzou; 2. Psychoanalysis Klem James; 3. Surrealism and the demand of politics Raymond Spiter; 4. Modern science Gavin Parkinson; 5. Surrealism and dreams Natalya Lusty; 6. Surrealism and Eros Alyce Mahon; Part II. Developments Practices/Cultures/Material Forms: 7. Surrealist collections in Paris and Sussex Katharine Conley; 8. Surrealist objects Christina Rudosky; 9. Collage Elza Adamowicz; 10. Film Kristoffer Noheden; 11. Photography in surrealism David Bate; 12. Surrealist fashion Ilya Parkins; 13. Surrealist display practices: repositories outside reason Adam Jolles; Part III. Applications Heterodoxies and New Worlds: 14. Surrealism and schizoanalysis Gregory Minissale; 15. The surrealist bestiary and animal philosophyWalter Kalaidjian; 16. Picasso's habits: Andre Breton on art, nature and reflexivity Joyce S. Cheng; 17. Surrealism and mass observation Tyrus Miller; 18. Pacific surrealism Paul Giles; 19. Decolonial surrealism Jonathan P. Eburne; 20. Surrealism and ecriture feminine Anna Watz; 21. Subcultural receptions of surrealism in the 1960s international underground press Abigail Susik.