Surrealism, politics and culture / edited by Raymond Spiteri and Donald LaCoss.
| Other author | Spiteri, Raymond. |
| Other author | LaCoss, Donald. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, ©2003. |
| Description | xiii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2002032609 |
| ISBN | 0754609898 (alk. paper) |