Remade in America

Surrealist Art, Activism, and Politics, 1940-1978
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-520-30904-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 262 mm, Gewicht: 935 g

It is often assumed that surrealism did not survive beyond the Second World War and that it struggled to take root in America. This book challenges both assumptions, arguing that some of the most innovative responses to surrealism in the postwar years took place not in Europe or the gallery but in the United States, where artistic and activist communities repurposed the movement for their own ends. Far from moribund, surrealism became a form of political protest implicated in broader social and cultural developments, such as the Black Arts movement, the counterculture, the New Left, and the gay liberation movement. From Ted Joans to Marie Wilson, artists mobilized surrealism’s defining interests in desire and madness, the everyday and the marginalized, to craft new identities that disrupted gender, sexual, and racial norms. Remade in America ultimately shows that what began as a challenge to church, family, and state in interwar Paris was invoked and rehabilitated to diagnose and breach inequalities in postwar America.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pawlik, Joanna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Surrealismus, Abstrakter Expressionismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. Re-Viewing Surrealism: Charles Henri Ford's Poem Posters (1964–65)
2. Encountering Surrealism: Nadja (1928) and Autobiographical Beat Writing
3. Blackening Surrealism: Ted Joans's Ethnographic Surrealist Historiography

4. Turning on Surrealism: Queer Psychedelia
5. Hystericizing Surrealism: The Marvelous in Popular Culture

Postscript

Notes
Selected Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joanna Pawlik is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Sussex and has published widely on surrealism and American art and culture.