Studies in Surrealism
About the Book Series
With scholarly interest in Surrealism greater than ever, the Studies in Surrealism series serves as a forum for key areas of Surrealist inquiry today. This series extends the ongoing academic and popular interest in Surrealism, evident in recent studies that have rethought established areas of Surrealist activity and engagement, including those of politics, the object, photography, crime, and modern physics. Expanding and adding various lines of inquiry, books in the series examine Surrealism's intersections with philosophical, social, artistic, and literary themes. Potential subjects to be examined in the context of Surrealism include but are not limited to: nature; queer studies; humor and play; science; theory in the 1950s and 1960s; the New Novel; Surrealist activities beyond Paris. Proposals are welcomed for both monographs and essay collections dealing with the above subjects or with discussions of Surrealism in other aspects and genres. Monographic writings on artists and writers who have been generally overlooked by English-language scholarship (for instance, Victor Brauner, Toyen, Jorge Camacho) would also fall within the scope of this series.
?�ngel Planells'Art and the Surrealist Canon
1st Edition
By Anna Vives
October 14, 2024
Having been mistakenly perceived as a follower of Salvador Dalí, Catalan surrealist painter and writer Àngel Planells (1901–1989) has passed through the history of art practically unnoticed. Yet his work suggests an influence on a number of works by Dalí, proving that a fairer way to define their ...
Maruja Mallo and the Spanish Avant-Garde
1st Edition
By Shirley Mangini
October 14, 2024
The first book in English on Maruja Mallo, this volume is an insightful examination of the life and work of this seminal artist of the Spanish avant-garde. Previously sidelined by a culture that treated women as "insider-outsiders" and by her own mythmaking, Mallo no longer can be viewed as simply ...
Reading Claude Cahun's Disavowals
1st Edition
By Jennifer L. Shaw
October 14, 2024
The first monograph on a Surrealist cult classic, Reading Claude Cahun's Disavowals offers a comprehensive account of Cahun's most important published work, Aveux non avenus (Disavowals), 1930. Jennifer L. Shaw provides an encompassing interpretation of this groundbreaking work, paying careful ...
A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm
1st Edition
By Catriona McAra
June 13, 2022
In A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm, Catriona McAra offers the first critical study of the literary work of the celebrated American painter and sculptor Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012). McAra fills a major gap in the scholarship, repositioning Tanning’s writing at the centre of ...
Appropriated Photographs in French Surrealist Periodicals, 1924-1939
1st Edition
By Linda Steer
June 30, 2021
The first monograph to analyze the Surrealist gesture of photographic appropriation, this study examines "found" photographs in three French Surrealist reviews published in the 1920s and 1930s: La Révolution surréaliste, edited by André Breton; Documents, edited by Georges Bataille; and Minotaure, ...
The Animal Surreal: The Role of Darwin, Animals, and Evolution in Surrealism
1st Edition
By Kirsten Strom
March 31, 2021
The Animal Surreal situates Surrealism within the burgeoning field of Animal Studies by examining Surrealist representations of nonhuman animals through the lens of Darwinian theory. Unlike Marx and Freud, Darwin was rarely cited by name as a source for the Surrealists, and yet his influence is ...
Surrealism and the Gothic: Castles of the Interior
1st Edition
By Neil Matheson
December 18, 2020
Surrealism and the Gothic is the first book-length analysis of the role played by the gothic in both the initial emergence of surrealism and at key moments in its subsequent development as an art and literary movement. The book argues the strong and sustained influence, not only of the classic ...
Remaking the Readymade: Duchamp, Man Ray, and the Conundrum of the Replica
1st Edition
By Adina Kamien-Kazhdan
July 02, 2020
Replication and originality are central concepts in the artistic oeuvres of Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray. Remaking the Readymade reveals the underlying and previously unexplored processes and rationales for the collaboration between Duchamp, Man Ray, and Arturo Schwarz on the replication of ...
Surrealism, Occultism and Politics: In Search of the Marvellous
1st Edition
Edited
By Tessel M. Bauduin, Victoria Ferentinou, Daniel Zamani
February 26, 2020
This volume examines the relationship between occultism and Surrealism, specifically exploring the reception and appropriation of occult thought, motifs, tropes and techniques by Surrealist artists and writers in Europe and the Americas, from the 1920s through the 1960s. Its central focus is the ...
Andr�reton in Exile: The Poetics of "Occultation", 1941�1947
1st Edition
By Victoria Clouston
December 12, 2019
Following the journey of André Breton, the leader of the Surrealist movement, into exile during the Second World War, the author of this book traces the trajectory of his thought and poetic output from 1941–1948. Through a close examination of the major – and as yet little studied – works...
Sacred Surrealism, Dissidence and International Avant-Garde Prose
1st Edition
By Vivienne Brough-Evans
December 12, 2019
Vivienne Brough-Evans proposes a compelling new way of reevaluating aspects of international surrealism by means of the category of divin fou, and consequently deploys theories of sacred ecstasy as developed by the Collège de Sociologie (1937–39) as a critical tool in shedding new light on the ...
Angela Carter and Surrealism: 'A Feminist Libertarian Aesthetic'
1st Edition
By Anna Watz
January 17, 2019
In 1972, Angela Carter translated Xavière Gauthier’s ground-breaking feminist critique of the surrealist movement, Surréalisme et sexualité (1971). Although the translation was never published, the project at once confirmed and consolidated Carter’s previous interest in surrealism, representation, ...