سرگرایی، سیاست و فرهنگ (مطالعات در انتقال فرهنگی اروپا)

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. 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 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. Edited By Raymond Spiteri And Donald Lacoss. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Including as it did at one time or another writers and artists of the calibre of Louis Aragon, André Breton, Paul Eluard, René Char, Michel Leiris, René Crevel, Robert Desnos, Antonin Artaud, Raymond Queneau, Tristan Tzara, Pierre Naville, Max Ernst, André Masson and Alberto Giacometti, to mention just a handful of the hundred or so who joined its ranks, the Surrealist group probably exercised a greater influence on the intellectual climate of the interwar period in France than any other comparable movement. Perhaps the first significant incursion into the intricate nexus of politics and culture by the surrealists was at the infamous Saint-Pol-Roux banquet of July 2nd, 1925. The surrealists used the occasion to agitate against Franco-Spanish intervention in Morocco. This volume explores their considerable influence