Radical dreams : surrealism, counterculture, resistance / edited by Elliott H. King and Abigail Susik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

King, Elliott H., editor.

Susik, Abigail, 1977- editor.

Series:

Refiguring modernism

Refiguring modernism ; v.35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Counterculture--History--20th century.

Counterculture.

Surrealism--History.

Surrealism.

Genre:

Art criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 238 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ) : illustrations (some colour).

Other Title:

Surrealism, counterculture, resistance

Place of Publication:

University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"A collection of essays examining surrealism's cultural adaptations and genealogical descendants from the 1960s through the late 1980s. Explores surrealism's interactions with radical politics, protest movements, the sexual revolution, psychedelic subcultures, and other engaged and subcultural trends around the globe"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Surrealism as radicalism / Abigail Susik and Elliott H. King

Surrealism and revolutionary romanticism in May '68 / Michael Löwy

"Down with art, up with revolution" : protesting Dada and surrealism in 1968 / Sandra Zalman

Ted Joans, the other Jones : jazz poet, black power missionary, and surrealist interpreter / Gregory Pierrot

Angry, hopeful chaos and the great secret of surrealism : unraveling the tangled web of the 1970s / Penelope Rosemont

Passionate attraction : Fourier, feminism, free love, and L'Écart absolu / Claire Howard

"To be a painter means to oppose" : exhibiting and politicizing Robert Rauschenberg, 1959-1965 / Gavin Parkinson

A consciousness of being : Burn, baby burn and the political art of Roberto Matta / Alyce Mahon

The fantasy of a powerful myth : the situationist international after surrealism / Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen

Afrosurrealism as a counterculture of modernity / Jonathan P. Eburne

The surrealist adventure and the poetry of direct action : passionate encounters between the Chicago Surrealist Group, the Wobblies, and Earth First! / Ron Sakolsky

A useful bile : Andre Breton's Humor noir in 1960s America / Ryan Standfest

Oz magazine and British counterculture : a case study in the reception of surrealism / David Hopkins

Surrealism and punk : the case of COUM transmissions / Marie Arleth Skov.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: King, Elliott H. Radical Dreams

ISBN:

0-271-09166-5

OCLC:

1302111275