Overview

From its auspicious beginnings in the summer of 1966 to the present, the Chicago Surrealist Group--and the Surrealist Movement in the United States, which grew out of it--have continued to foment an exhilarating whirlwind of revolt while playfully igniting the sparks of Poetry, Freedom and Love in the crucible of the Unfettered Imagination. In so doing, it has brightly illuminated the pathways of absolute divergence that define the intrinsically anarchist trajectory of the surrealist adventure. Drawing on the full range of U.S. surrealist publications, from the original journal Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion to the very latest millennial communique from the front lines of the ongoing battle against miserabilism, this volume contains over 200 texts (more than two dozen appearing here for the first time) by more than fifty participants in the Surrealist Movement, making this the most comprehensive, diverse and lavishly illustrated compilation of American surrealist writings to have ever been assembled. Contributors include: Gale Ahrens, Jennifer Bean, Jen Besemer, Daniel C. Boyer, Paul Buhle, Ronnie Burk, Leonora Carrington, Laura Corsigilia, Jayne Cortez, Guy Ducornet, Rikki Ducornet, Schlechter Duvall, Alice Farley, J. Allen Fees, Beth Garon, Paul Garon, Eugenio F. Granell, Robert Green, Miriam Hansen, Diedra Harris-Kelley, Jan Hathaway, Corinna Jablonski, Joseph Jablonski, Ted Joans, Gerome Kamrowski, Robin D. G. Kelley, Don LaCoss, Philip Lamantia, Clarence John Laughlin, Mary Low, Herbert Marcuse, Tristan Meinecke, Casandra Stark Mele, Anne Olson, Nancy Joyce Peters, Charles Radcliffe, Myrna Bell Rochester, David Roediger, Franklin Rosemont, Penelope Rosemont, Ody Saban, Louise Simons, Martha Sonnenberg, Christopher Starr, Ivan Svitak, Cheikh Tidiane Sylla, Claude Tarnaud, Debra Taub, Dale Tomich, Patrick Turner, Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, Jordan West, Joel Williams, Marie Wilson, Haifa Zangana

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Author:   Ron Sakolsky
Publisher:   Autonomedia
Imprint:   Autonomedia
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.977kg
ISBN:  

9781570271229

ISBN 10:   1570271224
Pages:   744
Publication Date:   01 December 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part 1 The surrealist adventure - total nonconformism, insubordination and revolution as the way to a non-repressive civilization: what is surrealism?; first steps - surrealism in the US in the 1960s; poetry, freedom and love;surrealist games - play as the collective shaping reality; dreaming revolution - surrealism yesterday, today and tomorrow. Part II The surrealist critique: capitalist civilization - the global prison; against the degredation of langiuage - exposing the false poets and the miserabilist media; patriarchy and sexual oppression; work - terror and boredom at the point of production; the lie of whiteness; religion as repression; the desruction of wilderness; official art - the aesthetics of repressive desublimination; critique of the traditional left. Part III Surrealist action - social transformation as festival: realization of poetry in everyday life; defending the marvellous; subverting the institutions of unfreedom; the savage eye - liberating the visual imagination; outsiders; images of desire in motion; from horror to humour - surrealism's popular accomplices; black music - sounds of the history of freedom; other musics - disturbing the Peace ; taking chances and raising the stakes; rebel workers and utopian dreamers - reclaiming the past; surrealist inquiries - questioning everything.

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Ron Sakolsky is also the co-editor of two other Autonomedia anthologies: Gone To Croatan: The Origins of North American Drop-Out Culture (with James Koehnline) and Sounding Off!: Music as Subversion/Resistance/Revolution (with Fred Ho).

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