UID:
almahu_9949481468802882
Format:
1 online resource (270 p.) :
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17 color/22 b&w illustrations
ISBN:
9780271091662
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9783110992809
Series Statement:
Refiguring Modernism ; 35
Content:
Surrealism is widely thought of as an artistic movement that flourished in Europe between the two world wars. However, during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, diverse radical affinity groups, underground subcultures, and student protest movements proclaimed their connections to surrealism. Radical Dreams argues that surrealism was more than an avant-garde art movement; it was a living current of anti-authoritarian resistance.Featuring perspectives from scholars across the humanities and, distinctively, from contemporary surrealist practitioners, this volume examines surrealism's role in postwar oppositional cultures. It demonstrates how surrealism's committed engagement extends beyond the parameters of an artistic style or historical period, with chapters devoted to Afrosurrealism, Ted Joans, punk, the Situationist International, the student protests of May '68, and other topics. Privileging interdisciplinary, transhistorical, and material culture approaches, contributors address surrealism's interaction with New Left politics, protest movements, the sexual revolution, psychedelia, and other subcultural trends around the globe. A revelatory work, Radical Dreams definitively shows that the surrealist movement was synonymous with cultural and political radicalism. It will be especially valuable to those interested in the avant-garde, contemporary art, and radical social movements.In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Jonathan P. Eburne, David Hopkins, Claire Howard, Michael Löwy, Alyce Mahon, Gavin Parkinson, Grégory Pierrot, Penelope Rosemont, Ron Sakolsky, Marie Arleth Skov, Ryan Standfest, and Sandra Zalman.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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List of Illustrations --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introductory Essays --
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Surrealism as Radicalism --
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Surrealism and Revolutionary Romanticism in May '68 --
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Part 1: Surrealist Solidarity --
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1. "Down with Art, Up with Revolution": Protesting Dada and Surrealism in 1968 --
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2. Ted Joans, the Other Jones: Jazz Poet, Black Power Missionary, and Surrealist Interpreter --
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3. Angry, Hopeful Chaos and the Great Secret of Surrealism: Unraveling the Tangled Web of the 1970s --
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Part 2: Against the Liquidators --
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4. Passionate Attraction: Fourier, Feminism, Free Love, and L'Écart absolu --
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5. "To Be a Painter Means to Oppose": Exhibiting and Politicizing Robert Rauschenberg, 1959-1965 --
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6. A Consciousness of Being: Burn, Baby, Burn and the Political Art of Roberto Matta --
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Part 3: The Right to Insubordination --
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7. The Fantasy of a Powerful Myth: The Situationist International After Surrealism --
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8. Afrosurrealism as a Counterculture of Modernity --
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9. The Surrealist Adventure and the Poetry of Direct Action: Passionate Encounters Between the Chicago Surrealist Group, the Wobblies, and Earth First! --
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Part 4: Passional Attractions --
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10. A Useful Bile: André Breton's Humour Noir in 1960s America --
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11. Oz Magazine and British Counterculture: A Case Study in the Reception of Surrealism --
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12. Surrealism and Punk: The Case of COUM Transmissions --
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List of Contributors --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
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Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780271091662
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271091662?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271091662
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