Surrealist sabotage and the war on work / Abigail Susik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Susik, Abigail, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surrealism.

Work in art.

Sabotage.

Physical Description:

275 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Genealogy of the surrealist work refusal

Those `who do not accept': the development and significance of surrealism's work refusal

`Down with work!': Andre Thirion and other surrealists on work refusal

Influences on the surrealist work refusal

2. Surrealist automatism as symbolic sabotage

Simone Breton and the gendered labour of the surrealist automatist

Tracing stenographic surrealism and the dame dactylographe

Psychic automatism and feminisation

Conclusion: `surrealism is writing denied'

3. Oscar Dominguez: autonomy and autoeroticism

`These phosphorescent youths': Dominguez and surrealism, 1934-35

Dominguez's Machine a coudre electro-sexuelle (1934-35)

Operating Maldoror's vamp machine

Dysfunctional tools in Dominguez's anti-work oeuvre

Conclusion: a tool's ultimate end

4. Direct action surrealism in Chicago

Prologue: activist avant-garde

`Incendiary time bomb': The Rebel Worker (1964-66)

Robert Green, Gallery Bugs Bunny, and Chicago automatism

Chicago surrealism and Herbert Marcuse contra the performance principle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781526155016

152615501X

OCLC:

1241730533