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Surrealist sabotage and the war on work
- Title
- Surrealist sabotage and the war on work / Abigail Susik.
- Author
- Susik, Abigail, 1977-
- Publication
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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- Description
- xviii, 275 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
- Summary
- Surrealist sabotage and the war on work is an art historical study devoted to international surrealism's critique of wage labour between 1920 and 1980. Topics such as automatism, artworks across media, radical publications and social interventions are examined in relation to the movement's ongoing demand for non-alienated work.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Genealogy of the surrealist work refusal: Those ẁho do not accept': the development and significance of surrealism's work refusal ; D̀own with work!': Andre Thirion and other surrealists on work refusal ; Influences on the surrealist work refusal -- 2. Surrealist automatism as symbolic sabotage: Simone Breton and the gendered labour of the surrealist automatist ; Tracing stenographic surrealism and the dame dactylographe ; Psychic automatism and feminisation ; Conclusion: s̀urrealism is writing denied' -- 3. Óscar Domínguez: autonomy and autoeroticism: T̀hese phosphorescent youths': Domínguez and surrealism (1934-35) ; Domínguez's Machine à coudre électro-sexuelle (1934-35) ; Operating Maldoror's vamp machine ; Dysfunctional tools in Domínguez's anti-work oeuvre ; Conclusion: a tool's ultimate end -- 4. Direct action surrealism in Chicago: Prologue: activist avant-garde ; Ìncendiary time bomb': The Rebel Worker (1964-66) ; Robert Green, Gallery Bugs Bunny, and Chicago automatism ; Chicago surrealism and Herbert Marcuse contra the performance principle -- Epilogue: override dysfunctions and the "Klpaheck computer".
- Call Number
- JQE 22-425
- ISBN
- 9781526155016
- 152615501X
- OCLC
- 1241730533
- Author
- Susik, Abigail, 1977- author.
- Title
- Surrealist sabotage and the war on work / Abigail Susik.
- Publisher
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and index.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781526155009
- Research Call Number
- JQE 22-425