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Author:   Krzysztof Fijalkowski ,  Michael Richardson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781138652071

ISBN 10:   1138652075
Pages:   286
Publication Date:   21 June 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Notes on Contributors Introduction (Krzysztof Fijalkowski and Michael Richardson) PART I: CONTEXTS Heraclitus, Hegel and dialectical understanding (Jonathan P. Eburne) Hermeticism and the magical tradition (Guy Girard) Freudian Origins (Jean-Michel Rabaté) Utopia: the Revolution in Question (Georges Sebbag) Sade and revolutionary violence (Michael Richardson) ‘The Speaking Flame’: the Romantic Connection (Michael Löwy) Dada (Krzysztof Fijalkowski) PART 2: KEY CONCEPTS Community at Play (Raymond Spiteri) Otherness and Self-Identity (Michael Richardson) Poetics (Michael Richardson) Objective Chance (Raihan Kadri, Michael Richardson and Krzysztof Fijalkowski) The Chance Encounter: Language and Madness (Michael Stone-Richards) Dream: a Manifesto of the Manifest Dream (Georges Sebbag) Mad Love (Dawn Ades and Michael Richardson) Convulsive Beauty (Krzysztof Fijalkowski) The Object (Krzysztof Fijalkowski) Black Humour (Michael Richardson) The Ecological Imperative (Donna Roberts) Magic Art (Bertrand Schmitt) The Marvellous (Joyce Suechun Cheng and Michael Richardson) The Supreme Point (Krzysztof Fijalkowski and Michael Richardson) Chronology of Surrealism Bibliography Index

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Krzysztof Fijalkowski is Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture, BA Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts, UK. He is the author of a number of articles on the subject of international surrealism, including contributions to the exhibition catalogues Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design (2007), Surreal House (2010) and Magritte A-Z (2011). Michael Richardson is currently Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University of London, UK. He is author of Otherness in Hollywood Cinema (2010), Surrealism and Cinema (2006), The Experience of Culture (2001) and Georges Bataille (1994). He has worked with Krzysztof Fijalkowski on a number of projects, including the books Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and the Caribbean (1996) and Surrealism against the Current (2001).

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