Surrealism Against The Current Tracts and Declarations,9780745317793

Surrealism Against The Current Tracts and Declarations

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ISBN13: 9780745317793
ISBN10: 0745317790
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-09-20
Publisher(s): Pluto Press
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Summary

'Includes some sixty manifestoes, tracts and declarations from the 1920's to the 1960's. It is a rich treasure trove.' --David Macey, Radical Philosophy

Author Biography

Michael Richardson lectures in cultural theory and social anthropology at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London. He edited and translated with Krzysztof Fijalkowski Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and the Caribbean (Verso, 1996) and more recently Georges Bataille: Essential Writings (Sage Publications, 1998).
Krzysztof Fijatkowski is a lecturer in visual culture and art history at Norwich School of Art and Design and the University of East Anglia. He is also an occasional exhibition curator, artist and guitarist.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements viii
Introduction: Surrealism as a Collective Adventure 1(18)
Note on the Selection of Texts 19(2)
The Historical Orientation of Surrealism
21(72)
Introduction to La Revolution surrealiste
22(2)
Declaration of 27 January 1925
24(1)
The Position of Surrealism
25(4)
Letter to Andre Breton
29(3)
Dialectics of the Dialectic
32(10)
Inaugural Rupture
42(7)
High Frequency
49(2)
Note for Le Surrealisme, meme
51(1)
Confronting the Liquidators
52(3)
Let's Get to the Point
55(3)
The Platform of Prague
58(8)
The Possible Against the Current
66(10)
When Surrealism Turned Fifty
76(3)
Hermetic Bird
79(2)
The Platform of Prague Twenty Years On
81(12)
Surrealism vis-a-vis Revolutionary Politics
93(46)
The Revolution First and Always!
95(2)
Burn Them Down!
97(2)
Mobilisation Against War is Not Peace
99(5)
'Planet Without a Visa'
104(2)
When the Surrealists Were Right
106(5)
The Knife in the Wound
111(3)
Counter-attack: Union of the Struggle of Revolutionary Intellectuals
114(3)
Declaration: 'The Truth About the Moscow Trials'
117(2)
For a Revolutionary Union
119(1)
Neither Your War Nor Your Peace!
120(1)
Binary Star: Letter to a Group of Militants
121(4)
Hungary, Rising Sun
125(1)
The Example of Cuba and the Revolution
126(2)
Neither Today Nor In This Way
128(2)
The Surrealists to the French Section of the Fourth International
130(2)
Portait of the Enemy
132(2)
Down with France!
134(1)
The Public Spere and Curiosity
135(4)
The Security of the Spirit
139(41)
Letter to the Head Doctors of Insane Asylums
140(1)
Address to the Dalai Lama
141(1)
Address to the Pope
142(1)
Open the Prisons/Disband the Army
142(1)
The Fiftieth Anniversary of Hysteria
143(2)
Read... Don't Read
145(1)
The Aragon Affair
146(2)
Poetry Transfigured
148(2)
The Fireships of Fear
150(2)
Back to Your Kennels, Yelpers of God
152(3)
See... Don't See
155(1)
Murderer!
156(1)
Facing the Mob
157(2)
The Heart's Hue and Cry
159(1)
Warning Shot
159(4)
Against Celine
163(1)
Expose the Physicists, Empty the Laboratories!
164(2)
It's Up to You
166(1)
Run If You Must
167(5)
The Stockholm Reminder
172(1)
beautiful like Beautiful Like
173(7)
Declarations on Colonialism
180(18)
To the Soldiers and Sailors
181(1)
The World in the Surrealist Era
182(1)
Don't Visit the Colonial Exhibition
182(3)
First Appraisal of the Colonial Exhibition
185(3)
Legitimate Defence
188(2)
Murderous Humanitarianism
190(3)
Freedom is a Vietnamese Word
193(2)
Declaration on the Right to Insubordination in the Algerian War
195(3)
Appendices 198(10)
Jean Schuster, The Fourth Canto
198(5)
Definitions of Surrealism
203(5)
Select Bibliography 208(2)
Notes 210(6)
Index 216

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