Some folks on the list may be interested in but have not yet seen the
following -
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Call for Contributors
Revolution by Night: Encounters between Surrealism, Politics and Culture,
1919-1968
The study of Surrealism eludes convention methodological approaches of
academic scholarship, which frequently reduces the ambitious compass of the
movement to an artistic or literary style. This approach not only
represents an inadequate account of Surrealism and its complex response to
modernity, but obscures its historical legacy and contemporary relevence.
Recently, exciting new interdisciplinary work has attempted to redraw the
lines of the inadequate "art and politics" model of surrealist
scholarship.This anthology provides a cross-section of this new generation
of surrealist studies and centers itself around a series of questions
regarding the
political and cultural dimensions of the surrealist enterprise, especially
in regard to audience reception, popular agitation, and mobilization. By
focussing on surrealism's accomplishments, failures, and missed
opportunities for cultural revolution and political action during the
movement's first half-century, a new set of perspectives emerge that will
help us to view more generally the relation between politics, culture and
modernity. With this potential for multiple and (multi-disciplinary)
perspectives, we welcome article proposals from a variety of fields that
contribute to enriching and exploring the study of the ways that
surrealism, culture, and radical politics intersect.
Potential topics could include various pivotal moments, images and ideas:
-anarchism
-Hegel and Lenin
-communist parties (in France, Spain, Czechoslavakia, Brazil, Japan, Egypt)
-Stalin and socialist realism
-Trotsky & Trotskyism
-the Spanish Civil War
-Nazi persecution and surrealism during the Occupation
-Situationism and '68
-gender, sexuality, and sexual politics
-anti-clericalism, anti-militarism and anti-patriotism
-psychoanalysis, psychiatry, and anti-psychiatry
-fascism and anti-fascism
-ethnography, anti-colonialist activism, and "whiteness"
-scandals, street-fighting, censorship
Paper proposals should be 300-500 words; papers submitted should not exceed
6,750 words (double-spaced 25-30 pgs). Proposals should include separate
cover sheet with title, name, affiliation, and contact information.
Deadline for proposals: December 1, 1999.
Dr Raymond Spiteri <email: [log in to unmask]>
Research Fellow
School of Architecture and Fine Arts
University of Western Australia
Nedlands, WA 6907
AUSTRALIA
Donald LaCoss <email:[log in to unmask]>
Department of History
Tisch Hall
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
USA
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Raymond Spiteri <email: [log in to unmask]>
School of Architecture and Fine Arts
University of Western Australia
Nedlands WA 6907
Australia Tel: +61-8-9380-1554
Fax: +61-8-9380-1082
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