Surrealism in Latin America : vivísimo muerto / edited by Dawn Ades, Rita Eder, and Graciela Speranza.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ades, Dawn, editor.

Eder, Rita, editor.

Speranza, Graciela, 1957- editor.

Series:

Issues & debates

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surrealism--Latin America.

Surrealism.

Arts, Latin American--20th century.

Arts, Latin American.

Arts, Latin American--21st century.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

vii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2012]

Summary:

This collection of essays--the first major account of surrealism in Latin America that covers both literary and visual production--explores the role the movement played in the construction and recuperation of cultural identities and the ways artists and writers contested, embraced, and adapted surrealist ideas and practices. Surrealism in Latin America provides new Latin American-centric scholarship, not only about surrealism's impact on the region but also about the region's impact on surrealism. It reconsiders the relation between art and anthropology, casts new light on the aesthetics of "primitivism," and makes a strong case for Latin American artists and writers as the inheritors of a movement that effectively went underground after World War II. In so doing, it expands our understanding of important, fascinating figures who are less well known than their counterparts active in Europe and New York. Deriving from a conference held at the Getty Research Institute, the book is rich in new materials drawn from the GRI's diverse Mexican and South American surrealist collections, which include the archives of Vicente Huidobro, Enrique Gómez-Correa, César Moro, Enrique Lihn, and Emilio Westphalen. This panoramic survey goes a step beyond other recent studies to consider surrealism's ongoing legacies, proposing that the surrealist movement in Latin America, like the vivísimo muerto (the living dead)--cannot be relegated to the past.

Contents:

Introduction / Dawn Ades, Rita Eder, and Graciela Speranza

Surrealist love letters: the art and poetry of César Moro. "We who have neither church nor country": César Moro and surrealism / Dawn Ades ; Semiotics of the body and the passions in César Moro's love letters and poems / Yolanda Westphalen ; Making the stone speak: César Moro and the object / Kent Dickson

Surrealist encounters in the new world: pre-Columbian and Northwest Coast art. Benjamin Péret and Paul Westheim: surrealism and other genealogies in the land of the Aztecs / Rita Eder ; Anthropology in the journals Dyn and El hijo pródigo: a comparative analysis of surrealist inspiration / Daniel Garza Usabiaga ; Wolfgang Paalen: the totem as sphinx / Andreas Neufert

Revisiting the surrealism revolution: ideology and action. André Breton's anthology of freedom: the contagious power of revolt / Maria Clara Bernal ; "My goddesses and my monsters": Maria Martins and surrealism in the 1940s / Terri Geis

The surrealism effect: legacies and reception in art, literature, and politics. A note concerning causality: Julio Cortázar and surrealism / Gavin Parkinson ; The photographic legacy of surrealism in late-twentieth-century Chilean poetry / Matías Ayala ; Wanderers: surrealism and contemporary Latin American art and fiction / Graciela Speranza.

Notes:

This volume evolved from "Vivísimo Muerto: Debates on Surrealism in Latin America," a symposium held at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, 25/26 June 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Ades, Dawn. "We who have neither church nor country."

ISBN:

1606061178

9781606061176

OCLC:

775898112

Publisher Number:

99952071168