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Book SynopsisA collection of critical and polemical essays. It features such essays as: "Refusal to Inter", "Legitimate Defense", "Surrealism and the Treatment of Mental Illness", "Introduction to the Strange Tales of Achim von Arnim", and "Picasso in His Element".
Table of ContentsForeword by Mary Ann Caws; Preface: In the harsh light of dawn by Mark Polizzotti Introduction to the Discourse on the Paucity of Reality; Burial Denied; In Self-Defense; Paul Eluard's "Capital of Pain"; The X..., Y... Exhibit; Notice to the Reader of "The Hundred Headless Woman"; The First Dali Exhibit; Lyubovnaya lodka razbilas o byt; On the Relations Between Intellectual Labor and Capital; Psychiatry Standing Before Surrealism; Letter to Andre Rolland de Reneville; On the Proletarian Literature Contest Organized by L'Humanitie; Introduction to Achim von Arnim's "Strange Tales"; Picasso in His Element; The Faces of Women; The Automatic Message Sources and acknowledgements