The Routledge companion to surrealism / edited by Kirsten Strom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Strom, Kirsten, editor.

Series:

Routledge art history and visual studies companions.

Routledge art history and visual studies companions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surrealism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 410 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London, England : Routledge, [2023]

Summary:

"This book provides a conceptual and global overview of the field of Surrealist studies. Methodologically, the companion considers Surrealism's many achievements but also its historical shortcomings, to illuminate its connections to the historical and cultural moment(s) from which it originated and to assess both the ways in which it still shapes our world in inspiring ways and the ways in which it might appear problematic as we look back at it from a twenty-first century vantage point. Contributions from experienced scholars will enable professors to teach the subject more broadly, by opening their eyes to aspects of the field that are on the margins of their expertise, and it will enable scholars to identify new areas of study in their own work, by indicating lines of research at a tangent to their own. The companion will reflect the interdisciplinarity of Surrealism by incorporating discussions pertaining to the visual arts, as well as literature, film, and political and intellectual history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I Concepts and Practices

Exploratory Themes

1 Dreams and Humour

2 Play, Games, and Chance

3 The Marvelous and the Uncanny

4 Convulsive Beauty and Mad Love

5 The Occult, Magic, and Alchemy

6 Toward a Total Animism: Surrealism and Nature

Protestations

7 Capitalism and Colonialism

8 Limits Not Frontiers: Surrealist Resistance to Nationalism, Patriotism, and Militarism

9 Catholicism and Family Values

Creative Applications

10 Verbal Techniques

11 Visual Methods

12 Buñuel and Dalí, Un Chien andalou

Part II Lessons from Paris

Tensions and Dissensions

13 "Anarchy" . . . or Anarchism?: Dada in Paris and the Shifting Politics of Irreverence

14 Georges Bataille, André Breton, and the Culture of Surrealism

15 Surrealism and the French Communist Party

Public Interfaces

16 Surrealism's Publics

17 Surrealism on Display: American Reception and Expansion

Part III Situated Contexts: Adaptations and Translations

18 Surrealism in the Arab World

19 Surrealism and Australia

20 Surrealism in Belgium: A Never-Ending Story

21 Surrealism in the Caribbean in the 1940s: Transnational Encounters

22 Surrealism in Chicago

23 Surrealism in China

24 Surrealism in the Czech Lands

25 Surrealism in England

26 Surrealism in Greece

27 Surealis Yogya and Other Surrealist Moments in Indonesia in the Twentieth Century

28 Surrealism in Japan

29 Surrealism in Mexico

30 Romanian Surrealism

31 Scandinavian Surrealism

32 Surrealist Dialogues in South America

33 Surrealism and Spain

34 Surrealism and Postwar West Germany

Part IV Critical Dialogues

The Politics of Collecting

35 L'élan surréaliste: Surrealist Aspirations and the Power and Primacy of Oceanic Art

36 The Surrealist Experience of Indigenous North America: A Second "Discovery" of the Americas

Gender and Sexuality

37 Feminist Encounters with Surrealism: Revisiting the Formative Critiques

38 Surrealist Visions of Androgyny

39 Radical Muses

40 Dismembered Muses and Mirrors That Bite: A Trans Perspective on Gender Variance in Surrealist Art

Part V Further Reaches

41 The Intellectual Resonances of Surrealism

42 Surrealist Resonances in Contemporary Art

43 The Hybrid and Surreal Memoirs of Tameca Cole, Raymond Towler, Shay Youngblood, and Steve Cormany

44 Inquiry on Surrealism in 2024

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Routledge companion to surrealism

ISBN:

1-00-313965-5

1-003-13965-5

1-000-73589-3

9781003139652

OCLC:

1344160110