SURREALISM, POLITICS AND CULTURE
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Surrealism, politics and culture. - (Studies in European
cultural transition)
1.Surrealism - History 2.Surrealism - Political aspects
3.Politics and culture
I.Spiteri, Raymond II.LaCoss, Donald
700.41163
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Surrealism, politics and culture / edited by Raymond Spiteri and Donald LaCoss.
p. cm -- (Studies in European cultural transition)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7546-0989-8 (alk. paper)
1. Surrealism--Europe 2. Arts, European--20th century. 3. Arts--Europe--Political
aspects. I. Spiteri, Raymond. II. LaCoss, Donald. III. Series.
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Contents
Raymond Spiteri and Donald LaCoss
Robert Short
Theresa Papanikolas
Raymond Spiteri
Amy Lyford
Jonathan P. Eburne
Amanda Stansell
Robert S. Lubar
Jordana Mendelson
Elena Filipovic
Robin Adle Greeley
E. San Juan, Jr.
Alyce Mahon
Donald LaCoss
M. Stone-Richards
Theodore Fraenkel
Guide
The European dimension of research in the humanities has come into sharp focus over recent years, producing scholarship which ranges across disciplines and national boundaries. This series provides a major channel for this work and unites the fields of cultural studies and traditional scholarship. It will publish in the areas of European history and literature, art history, archaeology, language and translation studies, political, cultural and gay studies, music, psychology, sociology and philosophy. The emphasis is explicitly European and interdisciplinary, concentrating attention on the relativity of cultural perspectives, with a particular interest in issues of cultural transition.
Martin Stannard
Greg Walker
University of Leicester
Jonathan P. Eburne teaches in the English Department at the University of Tennessee. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. He has published articles on Surrealism, Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Chandler, and William Burroughs, and his current book project is entitled Surrealism and the Art of Crime.
Elena Filipovic is a doctoral candidate in Art History at Princeton University completing a study on Marcel Duchamp and the museum-archive. Recent publications include Duchamp on Display, to accompany the exhibition she curated for the Zabriskie Gallery, as well as contributions to Puppen, Korper, Automaten (Cologne: Octagon, 1999), Artpress and Frieze.
Robin Adle Greeley is Assistant Professor of Latin American Art History at the University of Connecticut. She is author of the forthcoming book, Organizing Pessimism: Surrealism, Politics and the Spanish Civil War. She is currently working on a second book, concerning gender and Mexican cultural nationalism, 19201970.
Donald LaCoss is currently preparing a manuscript on revolutionary defeatism and anarchism in French surrealism from 1934 to 1945. He works with the Chicago surrealist group and teaches history in western Wisconsin.
Robert S. Lubar is Professor of Fine Arts at New York Universitys Institute of Fine Arts. His forthcoming book, Divided Landscapes: Painting and Politics in Spain, 18981936, will be published by Yale University Press.
Amy Lyford is Assistant Professor of Art History at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Her publications include essays on Lee Millers photography (History of Photography, 1994), and surrealisms aesthetics of dismemberment (Cultural Critique, 2000). She is currently completing a book entitled Body Parts: Surrealism and the Reconstruction of Masculinity.
Alyce Mahon is Lecturer in History of Art and Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. Her PhD dissertation, Surrealism and the Politics of Eros in Post-war France, 194468 (Courtauld Institute, 1999), has led to published essays on Andr Masson, Hans Bellmer, Unica Ziim, Pierre Klossowski and Jean-Jacques Lebel, and an essay on the surrealist exhibition in Surrealism: Desire Unbound (Tate, 2001). Forthcoming publications include Pierre Klossowksi: Decadence of the Nude (Blackdog Press, 2002) and Eroticism and Art (Oxford University Press, 2003).
Jordana Mendelson teaches at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has published widely on early twentieth-century Spanish art, especially photography, film and print media. Her current research focuses on the Surrealists and their collection, appropriation, and creation of postcards. She guest edited From Albums to the Academy: Postcards and Art History, Visual Resources (2001).
Theresa Papanikolas received her PhD in Art History from the University of Delaware. Her work on the cultural politics of Dada and Surrealism includes Anarchism Between the Wars: The Cultural Politics of Paris Dada, under consideration by Cambridge University Press. Currently, she is an editor in the publications department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
E. San Juan, Jr. is a fellow of the Center for the Humanities, and visiting Professor of English, Wesleyan University. His recent books are Beyond Postcolonial Theory (Palgrave), From Exile To Diaspora (Westview), After Postcolonialism (Rowman & Littlefield) and Racism and Cultural Studies
