Research Catalog

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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Details

Description

xviii, 275 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Subject

• Surrealism
• Work in art
• Sabotage

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and index.

Contents

1. Genealogy of the surrealist work refusal: Those `who do not accept': the development and significance of surrealism's work refusal ; `Down 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: `surrealism is writing denied' -- 3. Óscar Domínguez: autonomy and autoeroticism: `These 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 ; `Incendiary 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".

ISBN

• 9781526155016
• 152615501X
• 9781526155009 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 1526155001 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781526155023 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 1526155028 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

99989647820

OCLC

• on1241730533
• 1241730533

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries