Surrealism / edited by Natalya Lusty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lusty, Natalya, editor.

Series:

Cambridge critical concepts.

Cambridge critical concepts

Standardized Title:

Surrealism (Cambridge University Press)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surrealism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 423 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Surrealism's critical legacy / Natalya Lusty

Origins : ideas-concepts-interventions. The surrealist world / Effie Rentzou

Psychoanalysis / Klem James

Surrealism and the demands of politics / Raymond Spiteri

Modern science / Gavin Parkinson

Surrealism and dreams / Natalya Lusty

Surrealism and eros / Alyce Mahon

Developments : practices-cultures-material forms. Surrealist collections in Paris and Sussex / Katharine Conley

Surrealist objects / Christina Rudosky

Collage / Elza Adamowicz

Film / Kristoffer Noheden

Photography in surrealism / David Bate

Surrealist fashion / Ilya Parkins

Surrealist display practices : repositories outside reason / Adam Jolles

Applications : heterodoxies and new worlds. Surrealism and schizoanalysis / Gregory Minissale

The surrealist bestiary and animal philosophy / Walter Kalaidjian

Picasso's habits : André Breton on art, nature and reflexivity / Joyce S. Cheng

Surrealism and mass observation / Tyrus Miller

Pacific surrealism / Paul Giles

Decolonial surrealism / Jonathan P. Eburne

Surrealism and écriture feminine / Anna Watz

Subcultural receptions of surrealism in the 1960s international underground press / Abigail Susik.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Jul 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-85161-4

1-108-86263-2

OCLC:

1240828342