A Cavalier History of Surrealism

by Vaneigem, Raoul

• ISBN13: 9781873176948
• ISBN10: 1873176945
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: A K Pr Distribution

Summary

Cultural Writing. Literary Criticism. What was living and what was dead in Surrealism? This collection responds to this question unequivocally, examining not only the artistic aspects of surrealism, but its political aspects. If there is any truth to the notion that the drowning see their whole life replayed before their eyes in a few short seconds, Surrealism may well be described as the last dream of a foundering culture. Jules-FranA[aAois Dupuis was a pseudonym of the Belgian writer Raoul Veneigem, who was a leading light in the Situationist International. Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith.

Table of Contents

History and Surrealism
The Crisis of Culture	p. 3
The Break from Dada	p. 11
The Specificity of Surrealism	p. 16
In the Shadow of the Communist Party	p. 20
Changing Life
The Refusal of Survival	p. 35
Fragments of a Project of Human Emancipation	p. 49
Knowledge of the Human and Its Experimental Investigation	p. 54
Transforming the World
Revolutionary Ideology	p. 67
An Informal Organization	p. 74
Promoting the Image as Object
Language and Its Subversion	p. 81
The Savage Eye and the Civilization of the Image	p. 95
Converting to Mysticism
Reconsecration	p. 105
An Anti-Christian Ecumenism	p. 121
Now	p. 125
Translator's Acknowledgements	p. 131
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