Surrealism and ecology / edited by Anne Marie E. Butler, Donna Roberts, Iveta Slavkova.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Butler, Anne Marie E., editor.

Roberts, Donna, editor.

Slavkova, Iveta, editor.

Series:

Curating and interpreting culture

Series in curating and interpreting culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology in art.

Surrealism.

surrealist.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, Delaware : Vernon Press, [2026]

Summary:

"'Surrealism and Ecology' is the first volume to consider the intersections of these two fields. It addresses the contribution of the avant-gardes in thinking about the relationship of humans with their environment in the context of massive environmental upheaval in the twentieth century. This volume explores the significant role of Surrealist artists and writers within the history of critical thinking about nature and environment over the last hundred years. It approaches ecology both as a mode of thinking about the many interconnections of life and as a way of experiencing and knowing the world. The relationship of humans with their environment is of paramount significance within contemporary discourse, and the contribution of the historical avant-gardes to this topic remains largely underexplored. In addressing this gap, the book presents a diverse selection of analyses of the ways in which the Surrealists have thought about and represented nature and the human place within it. It emphasises how Surrealism's interventions in connecting seemingly distinct domains of thought and phenomena can be understood as relevant to more recent developments in the practice of ecological thought. Surrealist practices and the academic field of Surrealism studies are broad in scope and include not only visual art, but also poetry and literature, film, philosophy, exhibition design, and experimental practice. This volume includes contributions from established and developing scholars working across disciplines and locations, who address such varied practices and engage with analyses from multiple perspectives. The international and trans-Atlantic history of Surrealism is well-represented in this book, with over half the texts exploring the work of European Surrealists in exile during the Second World War or the art and environmental and political activism of Surrealists in the Caribbean and throughout the Americas."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Antonin Artaud: inhabiting the world / Olivier Penot-Lacassagne

Almé and Suzanne Césaire's surrealism and the ecopoetics of colonial trauma / Andrea Gremels

Multidirectional ecologies in Péret and Toyen's Natural History / Julia Drost

"These monsters and marvels of nature": surrealism and ecological thought in the work of Nanos Valaoritis and Marie Wilson / Victoria Ferentinou

Aquatic sensing in Jean Palnlevé's environments / Christina Heflin

Bona's snailography / Brianna Mullin

Waves of hair, shores of bones: Edith Rimmington's surreal seas / Tor Scott

Glissant's lam / Adam Jolles

Nature as myth and document: surrealist ecologue in the Americas / Kristoffer Noheden and Krzysztof Fijalkowski

Surrealism in the desert: the Arizona landscapes of Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning / Samantha Kavky

The strange magic ocean: women surrealists and environmentalism in Mexico / Terri Geis

Spew Forth Foliage Exhale Tendrils Weep Leaves: surrealism and the anthropocene in the work of Lucy Skaer / Anna Reid.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798881903770

9798881904586

OCLC:

1559775683

Publisher Number:

90104509219