Surrealism

The book examines the salient concepts and practices that have shaped Surrealism as a protean intellectual and cultural movement.

Natalya Lusty (Edited by)

9781108495684, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 12 August 2021

350 pages
23.4 x 15.8 x 2.7 cm, 0.76 kg

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.

Part I. Origins Ideas/Concepts/Interventions: 1. The surrealist world Effie Rentzou
2. Psychoanalysis Klem James
3. Surrealism and the demand of politics Raymond Spiter
4. Modern science Gavin Parkinson
5. Surrealism and dreams Natalya Lusty
6. Surrealism and Eros Alyce Mahon
Part II. Developments Practices/Cultures/Material Forms: 7. Surrealist collections in Paris and Sussex Katharine Conley
8. Surrealist objects Christina Rudosky
9. Collage Elza Adamowicz
10. Film Kristoffer Noheden
11. Photography in surrealism David Bate
12. Surrealist fashion Ilya Parkins
13. Surrealist display practices: repositories outside reason Adam Jolles
Part III. Applications Heterodoxies and New Worlds: 14. Surrealism and schizoanalysis Gregory Minissale
15. The surrealist bestiary and animal philosophyWalter Kalaidjian
16. Picasso's habits: André Breton on art, nature and reflexivity Joyce S. Cheng
17. Surrealism and mass observation Tyrus Miller
18. Pacific surrealism Paul Giles
19. Decolonial surrealism Jonathan P. Eburne
20. Surrealism and écriture feminine Anna Watz
21. Subcultural receptions of surrealism in the 1960s international underground press Abigail Susik.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Literary theory [DSA], Literature & literary studies [D]