Otherworlds

Otherworlds

Author: Jon Bird

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9781861891884

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A collection of essays exploring the work of US artists Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith.


Surrealism

Surrealism

Author: Natalya Lusty

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-08-12

Total Pages: 768

ISBN-13: 1108851614

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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.


Ghost Ships

Ghost Ships

Author: Robert McNab

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780300104318

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A moving and spectacular tale of love, jealousy, and exotic travel, centering on three significant figures in the surrealist movement. This book describes the secret journey made by an extraordinary ménage à trois: the painter Max Ernst, Paul Eluard (cofounder of surrealism with André Breton), and Eluard's wife Gala. The author unravels the story of Ernst's love affair with Gala, Eluard's disappearance, Ernst and Gala's pursuit of him, their meeting in Saigon where the love triangle came apart, and the resulting departure of the Eluards, who left Ernst to explore the jungles of French Indochina alone. The impact on the work of both men was profound. As for Gala, she eventually dropped both her lovers for Salvador Dali.


Surrealism Against The Current

Surrealism Against The Current

Author: Michael Richardson

Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)

Published: 2001-09-20

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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The choice of texts for the anthology reflects Richardson (Oriental and African studies, U. of London) and Fijalkowsky's (visual culture and art history, U. of East Anglia) desire to highlight the essence of surrealism as a collective idea whose very rationale is founded in the implications that emerge from any attempt at thinking together. They arrange documents in sections on historical orientation, revolutionary politics, the security of the spirit, and declarations on colonialism. Distributed in the US by Stylus Publishing. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


The Tel Quel Reader

The Tel Quel Reader

Author: Patrick Ffrench

Publisher: Taylor & Francis US

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780415157148

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The work of the French literary review, intellectual grouping, and publishing team Tel Quel had a profound impact on literary and cultural debate in the 1960s and '70s. THE TEL QUEL READER presents, for the first time in English, many of the key essays written by the Tel Quel group. The collection filled a much-needed gap in the literature available on the postculturalist movement.


Edition 69

Edition 69

Author: Jindrich Styrský

Publisher:

Published: 2020-05-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788086264110

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Launched in 1931 by Jindřich Styrský, Edition 69 consisted of six volumes of erotic literature and illustration that followed the path marked out by Louis Aragon's Irene's Cunt and Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye. Including the first Czech translation of Marquis de Sade's Justine and Pietro Aretino (both illustrated by Toyen), three volumes were from contemporary Czech avant-garde artists, and these were all illustrated by Styrský himself, who also contributed the text for the last volume of the series. Bringing together original English translations of the three Czech contributions to the Edition 69 series, this volume comprises Nezval's "Sexual Nocturne"; Halas's erotic poetry collection "Thyrsos"; and Styrský's "Emilie Comes to Me in a Dream," including the original essay from psychoanalyst and fellow Surrealist Bohuslav Brouk, all complemented by Styrský's artwork, ranging from pen and ink drawings to graphic collages to pornographic photomontages. Influenced by Max Ernst's collage-novels, Andre Masson's illustrations, and the book as object, Styrský's overall conception for the Edition 69 series rank it among the notable achievements of European Surrealism, representing as well a sustained attempt by the interwar Czech avant-garde to investigate the taboos of bourgeois culture.


The Secret Art of Antonin Artaud

The Secret Art of Antonin Artaud

Author: Jacques Derrida

Publisher: MIT Press (MA)

Published: 2000-02-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780262541084

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The Secret Artof Antonin Artaud is the first English translation of two famous textson his drawings and portraits.


Folk Archive

Folk Archive

Author: Jeremy Deller

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 9781870699815

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"This is a book about the creative life of Britain and the first attempt since the Festival of Britain to document the popular and folk art of the present day"--http://www.bookworks.org.uk/asp/detail.asp?uid=book_E46009BD-166D-4E0C-9F38-AD0303E0474E&sub=new.