A companion to Dada and Surrealism / edited by David Hopkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hopkins, David, 1955- editor.

Series:

Wiley-Blackwell companions to art history.

Wiley Blackwell companions to art history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dadaism.

Surrealism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (613 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley Blackwell, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism blends expert synthesis of the latest scholarship with completely new research, offering historical coverage as well as in-depth discussion of thematic areas ranging from criminality to gender. * This book provides an excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism from some of the finest established and up-and-coming scholars in the field * Offers historical coverage as well as in-depth discussion of thematic areas ranging from criminality to gender * One of the first studies to produce global coverage of the two movements, it also includes a section dealing with the critical and cultural aftermath of Dada and Surrealism in the later twentieth century * Dada and Surrealism are arguably the most popular areas of modern art, both in the academic and public spheres

Contents:

Title Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Editor; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Historiography; Avant-Garde/Subculture; Recent Research Trends; This Book, its Aims and Structure; References; Further Reading; Part I: Histories/Geographies; 1 Dada's Genesis; Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism; The First "Public" Dada Evening; Collection Dada; Galerie Dada; Dada; "Scandal" at the Eighth Dada Soirée; Dada and Exile; References; Further Reading; 2 Neue Jugend; References; Further Reading; 3 Dada Migrations; References; 4 New York Dada; Constructing New York Dada

MachinesMasculinism, Feminism, Group Formation; Readymades; References; Further Reading; 5 Nothing, Ventured; Some Events; Political Poetics; Language; The image, the object; Farewells; Into Surrealism; Surrealism and Painting; References; Further Reading; 6 Surrealism and the Question of Politics, 1925-1939; The Surrealist Revolution; The Crisis of 1929; Dissent and Politics; Surrealism in the Service of the Revolution; The Surrealists Break with the PCF; Towards an Independent Revolutionary Art; References; 7 "Other" Surrealisms; Acknowledgment; References; Further Reading

8 Dada and Surrealism in JapanReferences; Further Reading; 9 Dada and Surrealism in Central and Eastern Europe; New Maps of Dada and Surrealism; East of Dada; Reception of Surrealism across Central and Eastern Europe; The Impossible: Serbian Surrealism; A Great Black Silence: Surrealism in Romania; Against the Current: Surrealism in Czechoslovakia; References; 10 Surrealism in Latin America; Author's Note; References; Part II: Themes and Interpretations; 11 Dissemination; Introducing and Promoting Dada and Surrealism; Visual Cues: Graphic Design; Dialogue, Debate, and Dispute

The Journal NetworkReferences; Further Reading; 12 Artists into Curators; References; 13 Dada and Surrealist Poetics; Dada Begins; Dada's Meaningful Nonsense; The Laws of Chance: Between Dada and Surrealism; L'amour Fou; Coda; References; Further Reading; 14 Chance and Automatism; Dehumanization and Hybridity in Dada Chance; Surrealist Automatism and Objective Chance: World War I, Death, Telecommunication; References; Further Reading; 15 Crime/Insurrection; References; 16 Re-enchantment; Childhood; Toys; Cornell and the Question of Pedophilia; Nostalgia and the Outmoded; The Art of Memory

ReferencesFurther Reading; 17 Surrealism and Natural History; "A Feeling for Nature"; The Surrealist as Naturalist; The Marvelous; Roger Caillois, Surrealist Hermeneutics, and the "Demon of Analogy"; The Praying Mantis: Entomology and Surrealist Method; References; Further Reading; 18 The Surrealist Collection; References; 19 The Ethnographic Turn; References; 20 Desire Bound; Sade in Chains; Surrealism's Sade; Desire is a Strange Thing; Visualizing Sadism?; References; Further Reading; 21 Equivocal Gender: Dada/Surrealism and Sexual Politics between the Wars; References

22 Feminist Interventions: Revising the Canon

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78684-875-9

1-118-47621-2

1-118-47622-0

OCLC:

928137010