Aiming to re-evaluate the status and usage of the photographic image in historical surrealism, this book seeks to locate the use of photography by surrealists within the cultural discourses of that historical moment.
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David Bate examines automatism and the photographic image, the Surrealist passion for insanity, ambivalent use of Orientalism, use of Sadean philosophy and the effect of fascism of the Surrealists. The book is illustrated wtih a wide range of surrealist photographs.
The aim of this book is to re-evaluate the status and usage of the photographic image in historical Surrealism, seeking to locate the use of photography by Surrealists within the cultural discourses of that historical moment.
This clear and challenging re-evaluation of the status and usage of photographic images in historical surrealism puts surrealism's fundamental issues back into the framework of its historical purpose and function. David Bate asks what a surrealist photograph actually is. He disc…
"Examines how surrealism enriches our understanding of Stein'swriting through its poetics of oppositions"--
"Examines how surrealism enriches our understanding of Stein's writing through its poetics of oppositions"--
"Examines how surrealism enriches our understanding of Stein's writing through its poetics of oppositions"--
Introduction: Weird Ecology: VanderMeer's Anthropocene Fiction / Louise Economides and Laura Shackelford -- Node 1: More-than-Human Traces and Symbiotic Monsters: A Posthumanist Politics for the Anthropocene Era? -- Home on the Strange: The Queering of Place in VanderMeer's Born…
"This edited collection approaches the most pressing discourses of the Anthropocene and posthumanist culture through the surreal, yet instructive lens of Jeff VanderMeer's fiction. In contrast to universalist and essentializing ways of responding to new material realities, Vande…
"This edited collection approaches the most pressing discourses of the Anthropocene and posthumanist culture through the surreal, yet instructive lens of Jeff VanderMeer's fiction. In contrast to universalist and essentializing ways of responding to new material realities, Vande…
These essays, the result of profound reflection in the wake of World War II, comprise the most incisive study yet made of surrealism, insisting on its importance as a cultural and social phenomenon with far-reaching consequences. They clarify Bataille's links with the surrealist…
