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Surrealism, politics, and culture / edited by Raymond Spiteri and Donald LaCoss ; general editors, Martin Stannard and Greg Walker.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in European cultural transition ; v. 16.
- Studies in European cultural transition ; v. 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Surrealism--Europe.
- Surrealism.
- Arts, European--20th century.
- Arts, European.
- Arts--Political aspects--Europe.
- Arts.
- Arts--Political aspects.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 352 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2003]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Revolution by Night: Surrealism, Politics and Culture / Raymond Spiteri, Donald LaCoss 1
- 1 The Politics of Surrealism, 1920-36 / Robert Short 18
- 2 Towards a New Construction: Breton's Break with Dada and the Formation of Surrealism / Theresa Papanikolas 37
- 3 Surrealism and the Political Physiognomy of the Marvellous / Raymond Spiteri 52
- 4 Advertising Surrealist Masculinities: Andre Kertesz in Paris / Amy Lyford 73
- 5 Surrealism Noir / Jonathan P. Eburne 91
- 6 Surrealist Racial Politics at the Borders of 'Reason': Whiteness, Primitivism and Negritude / Amanda Stansell 111
- 7 Painting and Politics: Miro's Still Life with Old Shoe and the Spanish Republic / Robert S. Lubar 127
- 8 Of Politics, Postcards and Pornography: Salvador Dali's Le Mythe tragique de l'Angelus de Millet / Jordana Mendelson 161
- 9 Surrealism in 1938: The Exhibition at War / Elena Filipovic 179
- 10 For an Independent Revolutionary Art: Breton, Trotsky and Cardenas's Mexico / Robin Adele Greeley 204
- 11 Aime Cesaire's Insurrectionary Poetics / E. San Juan, Jr. 226
- 12 Hans Bellmer's Libidinal Politics / Alyce Mahon 246
- 13 Attacks of the Fantastic / Donald LaCoss 267
- 14 Failure and Community: Preliminary Questions on the Political in the Culture of Surrealism / M. Stone-Richards 300
- Appendix I Notes in the Hand of Leon Pierre-Quint Being the Record of a Conversation / Theodore Fraenkel 337.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754609898
- OCLC:
- 50479322
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