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Book Synopsis
This excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism blends expert synthesis of the latest scholarship with completely new research, offering historical coverage as well as in-depth discussion of thematic areas ranging from criminality to gender.

Trade Review
'This collection of essays builds on and expands the critical discourse on Dada and surrealism Though accessible to a broad readership, the collection is intended for an academic audience and is particularly well positioned to serve advanced students. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates; graduate students.' - E. K. Mix, Choice, April 2017.

Table of Contents

List of Figures viii

Editor xi

Notes on Contributors xii

Acknowledgments xvii

Introduction 1
David Hopkins

Part I Histories/Geographies 19

1 Dada's Genesis: Zurich 21
Debbie Lewer

2 Neue Jugend: A Case Study in Berlin Dada 38
Sherwin Simmons

3 Dada Migrations: Definition, Dispersal, and the Case of Schwitters 54
Michael White

4 New York Dada: From End to Beginning 70
David Hopkins

5 Nothing, Ventured: Paris Dada into Surrealism 89
Elizabeth Legge

6 Surrealism and the Question of Politics, 1925–1939 110
Raymond Spiteri

7 “Other” Surrealisms: Center and Periphery in International Perspective 131
Michael Richardson

8 Dada and Surrealism in Japan 144
Majella Munro

9 Dada and Surrealism in Central and Eastern Europe 161
Krzysztof Fijałkowski

10 Surrealism in Latin America 177
Dawn Ades

Part II Themes and Interpretations 197

11 Dissemination: The Dada and Surrealist Journals 199
Emily Hage

12 Artists into Curators: Dada and Surrealist Exhibition Practices 211
Adam Jolles

13 Dada and Surrealist Poetics 225
Eric Robertson

14 Chance and Automatism: Genealogies of the Dissociative in Dada and Surrealism 242
Abigail Susik

15 Crime/Insurrection 258
Jonathan P. Eburne

16 Re‐enchantment: Surrealist Discourses of Childhood, Hermeticism, and the Outmoded 270
David Hopkins

17 Surrealism and Natural History: Nature and the Marvelous in Breton and Caillois 287
Donna Roberts

18 The Surrealist Collection: Ghosts in the Laboratory 304
Katharine Conley

19 The Ethnographic Turn 319
Julia Kelly

20 Desire Bound: Violence, Body, Machine 334
Neil Cox

21 Equivocal Gender: Dada/Surrealism and Sexual Politics between the Wars 352
Tirza True Latimer

22 Feminist Interventions: Revising the Canon 366
Patricia Allmer

Part III Continuations/Aftermaths 383

23 The Surrealist Movement since the 1940s 385
Steven Harris

24 Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage? The North American Reception of Dada and Surrealism 400
James Boaden

25 Surrealism and Counterculture 416
Elliott H. King

26 Assimilation: Objects; Commodities; Fashion 431
Ulrich Lehmann

27 Sightings: Surrealist Idiolect, Gothic Marxism, Global Perils 449
Angela Dimitrakaki

Index 464

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 03/05/2016
      ISBN13: 9781118476185, 978-1118476185
      ISBN10: 1118476182
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      Book Synopsis
      This excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism blends expert synthesis of the latest scholarship with completely new research, offering historical coverage as well as in-depth discussion of thematic areas ranging from criminality to gender.

      Trade Review
      'This collection of essays builds on and expands the critical discourse on Dada and surrealism Though accessible to a broad readership, the collection is intended for an academic audience and is particularly well positioned to serve advanced students. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates; graduate students.' - E. K. Mix, Choice, April 2017.

      Table of Contents

      List of Figures viii

      Editor xi

      Notes on Contributors xii

      Acknowledgments xvii

      Introduction 1
      David Hopkins

      Part I Histories/Geographies 19

      1 Dada's Genesis: Zurich 21
      Debbie Lewer

      2 Neue Jugend: A Case Study in Berlin Dada 38
      Sherwin Simmons

      3 Dada Migrations: Definition, Dispersal, and the Case of Schwitters 54
      Michael White

      4 New York Dada: From End to Beginning 70
      David Hopkins

      5 Nothing, Ventured: Paris Dada into Surrealism 89
      Elizabeth Legge

      6 Surrealism and the Question of Politics, 1925–1939 110
      Raymond Spiteri

      7 “Other” Surrealisms: Center and Periphery in International Perspective 131
      Michael Richardson

      8 Dada and Surrealism in Japan 144
      Majella Munro

      9 Dada and Surrealism in Central and Eastern Europe 161
      Krzysztof Fijałkowski

      10 Surrealism in Latin America 177
      Dawn Ades

      Part II Themes and Interpretations 197

      11 Dissemination: The Dada and Surrealist Journals 199
      Emily Hage

      12 Artists into Curators: Dada and Surrealist Exhibition Practices 211
      Adam Jolles

      13 Dada and Surrealist Poetics 225
      Eric Robertson

      14 Chance and Automatism: Genealogies of the Dissociative in Dada and Surrealism 242
      Abigail Susik

      15 Crime/Insurrection 258
      Jonathan P. Eburne

      16 Re‐enchantment: Surrealist Discourses of Childhood, Hermeticism, and the Outmoded 270
      David Hopkins

      17 Surrealism and Natural History: Nature and the Marvelous in Breton and Caillois 287
      Donna Roberts

      18 The Surrealist Collection: Ghosts in the Laboratory 304
      Katharine Conley

      19 The Ethnographic Turn 319
      Julia Kelly

      20 Desire Bound: Violence, Body, Machine 334
      Neil Cox

      21 Equivocal Gender: Dada/Surrealism and Sexual Politics between the Wars 352
      Tirza True Latimer

      22 Feminist Interventions: Revising the Canon 366
      Patricia Allmer

      Part III Continuations/Aftermaths 383

      23 The Surrealist Movement since the 1940s 385
      Steven Harris

      24 Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage? The North American Reception of Dada and Surrealism 400
      James Boaden

      25 Surrealism and Counterculture 416
      Elliott H. King

      26 Assimilation: Objects; Commodities; Fashion 431
      Ulrich Lehmann

      27 Sightings: Surrealist Idiolect, Gothic Marxism, Global Perils 449
      Angela Dimitrakaki

      Index 464

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