Krzysztof Fijalkowski - Surrealism: Key Concepts

Surrealism

Emerging from the disruption of the First World War, surrealism con-fronted the resulting crisis of consciousness in a way that was arguably more profound than any other cultural movement of the time. The past few decades have seen an expansion of interest in surrealist writers, whose contribution to the history of ideas in the twentieth century is only now being recognized. Surrealism: Key Concepts is the first book in English to present an overview of surrealism through the central ideas moti-vating the popular movement. An international team of contributors provide an accessible examination of the key concepts, emphasizing their relevance to current debates in social and cultural theory.

This book will be an invaluable guide for students studying a range of disciplines, including Philosophy, Anthropology, Sociology and Cultural Studies, and anyone who wishes to engage critically with surrealism for the first time.

Contributors: Dawn Ades, Joyce Suechun Cheng, Jonathan P. Eburne, Guy Girard, Raihan Kadri, Michael Lwy, Jean-Michel Rabat, Donna Roberts, Bertrand Schmitt, Georges Sebbag, Raymond Spiteri, Michael Stone-Richards

Krzysztof Fijalkowski is Professor of Visual Culture and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts, UK. He is the author of a number of articles and book chapters on the subject of international surrealism, including contributions to the exhibition catalogues Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design (2007), Surreal House (2010) and Magritte AZ (2011).

Michael Richardson is Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Studies, GoldsmithsUniversity of London, UK. He is author of Otherness in Hollywood Cinema (2010), Surrealism and Cinema (2006), The Experience of Culture (2001) and Georges Bataille (1994). He has worked with Krzysztof Fijalkowski on a number of publications, including the books Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and the Caribbean (1996) and Surrealism against the Current (2001).

Key Concepts

The Key Concepts series brings the work of the most influential phi-losophers and social theorists to a new generation of readers. Each volume is structured by the central ideas or concepts in a thinkers work, with each chapter in a volume explaining an individual concept and exploring its application.

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Surrealism

Key Concepts

Edited by

Krzysztof Fijalkowski and Michael Richardson

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Names: Fijalkowski, Krzysztof, editor.

Title: Surrealism : key concepts / edited by Krzysztof Fijalkowski and Michael Richardson.

Description: 1 [edition]. | New York : Routledge, 2016. | Series: Key concepts | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015045938| ISBN 9781138652071 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781138652118 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315622071 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Surrealism.

Classification: LCC N6494.S8 S876 2016 | DDC 700/.41163--dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015045938

ISBN: 978-1-138-65207-1 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-65211-8 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-62207-1 (ebk)

Dawn Ades is Professor Emerita at the University of Essex. Her publications include Dada and Surrealism (1974), Photomontage (1976), Salvador Dal (1982), Andr Masson (1994), Marcel Duchamp (with Neil Cox and David Hopkins, 1999), Surrealism in Latin America: Vivisimo muerto (with Rita Eder and Gabriela Speranza) (2012). Among the exhibitions she has curated or co-curated are: Dada and Surrealism Reviewed (1978), Art in Latin America: The Modern Era 18201980 (1989), Art and Power: Europe under the Dictators (1995), Dals Optical Illusions (2000), Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents (2006), Close-Up: Proximity and Dematerialisation in Art, Film and Photography (2008) and The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art (2011).

Joyce Suechun Cheng received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2009, where she studied European art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has published articles and book chapters on Symbolism, Dada, surrealism and the art theories of Carl Einstein. She recently completed a book on the avant-garde art theories in the interwar period, entitled The Mask and the Subject: The Avant-Garde Art Criticism of Carl Einstein, Walter Benjamin and Surrealism. She is now working on a new project on late nineteenth-century painting and music in France and Belgium.

Jonathan P. Eburne is Associate Professor at the Pennsylvania State University. He is founding co-editor of ASAP/Journal, published by Johns Hopkins University Press (2016) and author of Surrealism and the Art of Crime (2008) and co-editor of Paris, Modern Fiction, and the Black Atlantic (with Jeremy Braddock, 2013) and This Years Work in the Oddball Archive (with Judith Roof, forthcoming). He has edited or co-edited special issues of