Surrealism, politics and culture / edited by Raymond Spiteri and Donald LaCoss.

Other author Spiteri, Raymond.
Other author LaCoss, Donald.
Format Book
Publication InfoAldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, ©2003.
Descriptionxiii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesStudies in European cultural transition
Studies in European cultural transition. ^A515169
Contents Introduction: Revolution by night: surrealism, politics and culture / Raymond Spiteri, Donald 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: André Kertész in Paris / Amy Lyford -- Surrealism noir / Jonathan P. Eburne -- Surrealist racial politics at the borders of 'reason': whiteness, primitivism and négritude / Amanda Stansell -- Painting and politics: Miró's Still life with old shoe and the the Spanish Republic / Robert S. Lubar -- Of politics, postcards and pornography: Salvador Dalí's Le mythe tragique de l'Angélus de Millet / Jordana Mendelson -- Surrealism in 1938: the exhibition at war / Elena Filipovic -- For an independent revolutionary art: Breton, Trotsky and Cárdenas's Mexico / Robin Adèle Greeley -- Aimé Césaire's insurrectionary poetics / E. San Juan, Jr. -- Hans Bellmer's libidinal politics / Alyce Mahon -- Attacks of the fantastic / Donald LaCoss -- Failure and community: preliminary questions on the political in the culture of Surrealism / M. Stone-Richards -- Appendix 1: Notes in the hand of Léon Pierre-Quint being the record of a conversation / Théodore Fraenkel.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2002032609
ISBN0754609898 (alk. paper)