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Drawing on literary, art historical and historical studies, this essay collection explores the complex encounter between culture and politics within Surrealism. The Surrealist movement was one of the first cultural movements to question explicitly the relation between culture and politics, and its attempt to fuse social and cultural revolution has been a critical factor in shaping our sense of modernity; yet few books have been published that directly address this aspect of the movement. Although the historical importance of Surrealism is beyond doubt, politics plays an ambiguous role in the movement: it indisputably pervades the work, informing its endeavours, yet it seems to evade direct articulation. This anthology addresses not only the contested ground between culture and politics within Surrealism itself, and within the subsequent historical accounts of the movement, but also the broader implications of this encounter on our own sense of modernity.Its goal is to delineate the role of radical politics in shaping the historical trajectory of Surrealism by drawing on the new perspectives provided by the latest considerations of social history, gender studies and postcolonial or race studies - approaches further modulated by the theoretical, methodological and disciplinary focuses of each contributor. This approach reveals hidden dimensions in the work of central figures like Andre Breton, Joan Miro, Salvador Dali and Hans Bellmer, the Surrealists' involvement in the politics of race and anti-colonialism, their relation to communism and anarchism, and the role of exhibitions as a site of political struggle. The volume illuminates how Surrealism played a contentious yet integral role to the development of contemporary French thought, and how it forms the background to current intellectual debates through its contribution to contemporary French theory.
Contents
Revolution by night - surrealism, politics and culture, Raymond Spiteri and Don LaCoss; The politics of Surrealism, 1920-36, Robert Short; Towards a new construction: Breton's break with Dada and the formation of surrealism, Theresa Papanikolas; Surrealism and the political physiognomy of the marvellous, Raymond Spiteri; Advertising Surrealist masculinities - Andr Kert sz in Paris, Amy Lyford; Surrealism noir, Jonathan P. Eburne; Surrealist racial politics at the borders of reason - whiteness, primitivism, and negritude, Amanda Stansell; Painting and politics - Miro's Still Life with Old Shoe and the Spanish Republic, Robert S. Lubar; Of Politics, postcards and pornography - Salvador Dali's Le mythe tragique de l'Angelus de Millet, Jordana Mendelson; Surrealism in 1938 - The Exhibition at War, Elena Filipovic; For an Independent Revolutionary Art - Breton, Trotsky and Mexico, Robin Adele Greeley; Aime Cesaire's insurrectionary poetics, E. San Juan, Jr; Hans Bellmer's libidinal politics, Alyce Mahon; Attacks of the fantastic, Don LaCoss; Failure and community - preliminary questions on the political in the culture of Surrealism, M. Stone-Richards. Appendix I: Notes in the hand of L on Pierre-Quint being the record of a conversation, Theodore Fraenkel.
