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Surrealism and Anti-Authoritarianism after 1945
丛编：- Avant-Garde Critical Studies, 卷： 49
- Avant-Garde Critical Studies, 卷： 49
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The Surrealist Movement was committed to an affinity group praxis of anti-authoritarianism that challenged oppressive sociopolitical systems with radical art and culture. Examining key episodes in post-1945 transnational surrealism and para-surrealisms in Europe and the Americas, this volume elucidates the contemporary relevance of the ongoing surrealist resistance to domination and totalitarianism, with a focus on anti-Statism. Examining surrealism’s fundamental interaction with anarchism and Marxism, and investigating its forays into self-management and non-hierarchical forms of organization, the volume’s topics range from anti-Algerian War activism, to Mai ’68 and Cuban Revolution organizing, to the Nadaísmo movement in 1960s Colombia, to art strikes and art abolitionism.
Abigail Susik is Joint Editor of Bloomsbury’s Transnational Surrealism Series and author of Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work (Manchester UP, 2021). She is the editor of several books devoted to Surrealism Studies and is a founding Board Member of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism.
Surrealism, like Marxism and optometry, is an indispensable set of hunches and conclusions that each cohort adjusts to their moment. As Dan Georgakas of the League of Revolutionary Poets put it, “Dada lives, Surrealism returns.” Surrealism and Anti-authoritarianism After 1945 proves that wherever people think and suffer—which is everywhere—surrealism offers them stronger dreams.
--Sasha Frere-Jones
In the Manifesto of Surrealism, André Breton declares that the only thing that still excites him is “the mere word ‘liberty.’” Abigail Susik’s brilliant new collection tells the story of the working out of the dialectical consequences of this excitement, this obsession with freedom. We find the surrealists giving worldly flesh to this word by creating a radically libertarian, uncompromisingly anti-authoritarian poetico-political practice. We discover the links between surrealism and the Spanish Revolution, anti-colonial struggles, the May-June 1968 Events in France, the Zapatista movement, and other key moments of the liberatory revolutionary tradition. The chapters of this work depict the struggle to move beyond all statist, centralist revolutions and all hierarchical vanguard parties, and to unveil all the deceptions of capitalism, the state, patriarchy, monotheism, technocracy, colonialism, imperialism, and even human supremacy. In short, it eloquently details the surrealist quest for “écart absolu”—a radical swerve in world history aimed at overturning the entire legacy of domination.
--John Clark, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Loyola University, New Orleans
--Sasha Frere-Jones
In the Manifesto of Surrealism, André Breton declares that the only thing that still excites him is “the mere word ‘liberty.’” Abigail Susik’s brilliant new collection tells the story of the working out of the dialectical consequences of this excitement, this obsession with freedom. We find the surrealists giving worldly flesh to this word by creating a radically libertarian, uncompromisingly anti-authoritarian poetico-political practice. We discover the links between surrealism and the Spanish Revolution, anti-colonial struggles, the May-June 1968 Events in France, the Zapatista movement, and other key moments of the liberatory revolutionary tradition. The chapters of this work depict the struggle to move beyond all statist, centralist revolutions and all hierarchical vanguard parties, and to unveil all the deceptions of capitalism, the state, patriarchy, monotheism, technocracy, colonialism, imperialism, and even human supremacy. In short, it eloquently details the surrealist quest for “écart absolu”—a radical swerve in world history aimed at overturning the entire legacy of domination.
--John Clark, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Loyola University, New Orleans
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Introduction
Surrealism, a Community of Anti-authoritarian Affinity Groups: Part I
Abigail Susik
1 Surrealism in the Shadow of the French–Algerian War
Raymond Spiteri
2 Poetic Anarchism
The Revolutionary Bridges between Nadaísmo and Surrealism
María Clara Bernal
3 The Differential Politics of Poetic Experience in Wartime and Postwar Surrealism
Steven Harris
4 Questioning the Avant-Garde
Surrealism and Leftist Organizations in May ’68
Anne Foucault
5 The Revolutionary Consciousness of Surrealism Faced with Totalitarianism
Michael Richardson
6 A Surrealist with a Gun
Allen Van Newkirk
Sean Lovitt
7 “Art Is the Armchair in Which the State Sits for Its Own Pleasure”
Breton’s Surrealist Art Strike and Jouffroy’s Postsurrealist Abolition of Art
Abigail Susik
8 Years of Untying Knots
Gee Vaucher and Collaging the Politics of the Family between Ernst and Laing
Stevphen Shukaitis
9 “Poetic Insubordination”
Surrealism in Paris after 1969
Michael Löwy
Index
List of Figures
Introduction
Surrealism, a Community of Anti-authoritarian Affinity Groups: Part I
Abigail Susik
1 Surrealism in the Shadow of the French–Algerian War
Raymond Spiteri
2 Poetic Anarchism
The Revolutionary Bridges between Nadaísmo and Surrealism
María Clara Bernal
3 The Differential Politics of Poetic Experience in Wartime and Postwar Surrealism
Steven Harris
4 Questioning the Avant-Garde
Surrealism and Leftist Organizations in May ’68
Anne Foucault
5 The Revolutionary Consciousness of Surrealism Faced with Totalitarianism
Michael Richardson
6 A Surrealist with a Gun
Allen Van Newkirk
Sean Lovitt
7 “Art Is the Armchair in Which the State Sits for Its Own Pleasure”
Breton’s Surrealist Art Strike and Jouffroy’s Postsurrealist Abolition of Art
Abigail Susik
8 Years of Untying Knots
Gee Vaucher and Collaging the Politics of the Family between Ernst and Laing
Stevphen Shukaitis
9 “Poetic Insubordination”
Surrealism in Paris after 1969
Michael Löwy
Index
The primary market includes students and scholars of avant-garde art history, leftist resistance, and related subjects. The secondary market includes artists, activists, and aficionados of countercultural movements and visual culture.