Papers of Surrealism

Papers of Surrealism 

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Lizzie Thynne, 'Indirect Action: Politics and the Subversion of Identity in Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore’s Resistance to the Occupation of Jersey'

Joanna Pawlik, 'Artaud in performance: dissident surrealism and the postwar American literary avant-garde'

Karla Huebner, 'Fire Smoulders in the Veins: Toyen's Queer Desire and Its Roots in Prague Surrealism'

Lucy Bradnock, 'Life in the Shadows: Towards a Queer Artaud'

Catherine Grant, 'Bellmer's Legs: Adolescent Pornography and Uncanny Eroticism in the Photographs of Hans Bellmer and Anna Gaskell'

Fiona Anderson, 'Notions of the Collaborative in the Work of David Wojnarowicz'
REVIEWS

Dominic Johnson, 'Ron Athey’s Visions of Excess: Performance After Georges Bataille'
Chiara Ambrosio, 'Surrealism, Art and Modern Science. Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Epistemology. By Gavin Parkinson'

Gavin Grindon, 'Surrealism, History and Revolution. By Simon Baker'

Alexander Howard, 'Pop Modernism - Noise and Reinvention of the Everyday. By Juan A. Suárez'

Kim Knowles, 'The Screen in Surrealist Art and Thought. By Haim Finkelstein'

Tirza Latimer, 'Disavowals or Cancelled Confessions. By Claude Cahun'

EXHIBITION REVIEWS

Kimberley Marwood, 'Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism'

Juliette Lavie, 'The Subversion of images'

Michael Richardson, 'Ai-Mitsu', 'Taro Okamoto and his contemporaries in the Post-War era, 1946-54' and 'Taro Okamoto, 1954-1970: the Contemporary Arts Institute through Expo ’70'

Tessel M. Bauduin, 'Surrealism und Wahsinn [Surrealism and Madness]' and
'Gegen jede Vernuft: Surrealismus Paris-Prag [Against All Reason: Surrealism Paris-Prague]'

TRANSLATIONS AND POEMS

'Six Poems by Paul Eluard (1924 - 1926)'
Translated by Natalie Boucly

David Lomas, 'André Breton’s ‘Subject’ (1917): Simulation and the Origins of Automatic Writing'

'Eight Surrealist Collages and Poems'
elin o’Hara slavick

07

Denis Hollier, 'Surrealism and its Discontents'

Julia Kelly, 'Discipline and Indiscipline: The Ethnographies of Documents'

Neil Cox, 'A Painting by Antoine Caron'

Sebastian Zeidler, 'Life and Death from Babylon to Picasso: Carl Einstein's Ontology of Art at the Time of Documents'

Georges Didi-Huberman, '"Picture=Rupture": Visual Experience, Form and Symptom according to Carl Einstein'

Lisa Florman, 'L'Art Mantique of Picasso, and Documents'

C.F.B. Miller, 'Bataille with Picasso: Crucifixion (1930) and Apocalypse'

Christian Roy, 'Arnaud Dandieu and the Epistemology of Documents'

Patrick ffrench, 'Documents in the 1970s: Bataille, Barthes and "Le gros orteil"'

Sophie Berrebi, 'Jean-Luc Moulène's Dialectical Documents'

Robert Desnos, 'Pygmalion and the Sphinx' (trans. Simon Baker)

06

Anthony White, ‘Terra Incognita: Surrealism and the Pacific Region’

Tyler Cann, ‘Surreal Sight Seer: Len Lye and Surrealism’

Stephen Mould, ‘Dusan Marek, a Land-locked Czech Surrealist in the Antipodes’

Barbara Creed, ‘The Unheimlich Pacific of Popular Film: Surreal Geography and the Darwinian Sublime’

David Lomas, ‘James Gleeson’s Desiring Production’

Anne Marsh, ‘A Surrealist Impulse in Contemporary Australian Photography’

Ken Wach, ‘Ivor Francis’s Schizophrenia of 1943’

Anthony White, ‘Graeme Doyle, The Cunningham Dax Collection and Surrealist Discourse’

Emma Cocker, ‘Desiring to be Led Astray’

Silke Dettmers, 'On the Necessity of Wonder'

Silvano Levy, 'Toni del Renzio in Extremis: Alter Ego and Doppelganger'

Katharine Swarbrick and Jane Goldman, ' "The Flowers of Friendship": Gertrude Stein and Georges Hugnet'

REVIEWS

Dada East. The Romanians of the Cabaret Voltaire by Tom Sandqvist
(Michael White)

Fuga Saeculi - Hugo Ball. Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, 2007-2008 (Debbie Lewer)

Wolfgang Paalen: Implicit Spaces. Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, 2007 (Ara H. Merjian)

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Patricia Allmer ‘La Reproduction Interdite: René Magritte and Forgery’

Jeannette Baxter ‘The Surrealist Fait-Divers: Uncovering Violent Histories in J. G. Ballard's Running Wild’

Joseph Cory ‘Realizing the Endless: the work of Juergen Mayer H. and the legacy of Frederick Kiesler’

Steven Harris ‘Pataphysical Graham’: A Consideration of the Pataphysical Dimension of the Artistic Practice of Rodney Graham

Peter Jones ‘Notes on British Surrealism at Southampton City Art Gallery’

Michael Stone-Richards 'Lost in translation: A note of the titles of Blanchot's work in relation to Breton' 

Drawing the Line: a Round Table on Rebecca Horn Susan Hiller in conversation with Roger Malbert

'André Breton,' prose-poems on the death of Breton by Jean-Luc Nancy (translated by Michael-Stone Richards)

EXHIBITION REVIEWS:

Freud’s Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 2006 (Michael Calderbank)

Dada’s Boys, Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, 2006 (Debbie Lewer)

John Stezaker, Norwich Gallery, 2006 (Krzysztof Fijalkowski)

A Secret Service: Art, Compulsion, Concealment, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, 2006-2007 (Clare O’Dowd)

Hans Bellmer, Pierre Klossowski and the Vicious Circle, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 2006 (Tamara Trodd)

Antonin Artaud, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, 2006-2007 (Lucy Bradnock)

Enigma Variations: Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico, Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2006 (Ara H. Merjian)

BOOK REVIEWS

Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art by Mignon Nixon (Alison Rowley)

Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art by Susan L. Aberth (Jonathan Eburne)

Ceci n'est pas un tableau: les écrits surréalistes sur l'art by Elza Adamowicz (Linda Goddard)

Surrealism and the Sacred. Power, Eros and the Occult in Modern Art by Celia Rabinovitch (Urszula Szulakowska)

Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos and the Avant-Gardes by Martin Puchner (Gavin Grindon)

'Fluxus Legacies'Visible Language, vols. 39 and 40 by Ken Friedman and Owen Smith (Anna Dezeuze)

04

Cornelius Borck 'Sound work and visionary prosthetics: artistic experiments in Raoul Hausmann'

Terri Geis 'The voyaging reality: Maria Izquierdo and Antonin Artaud, Mexico and Paris'

David Lomas '"Painting is dead - long live painting!" Notes on Dali and Leonardo'

Astrid Ruffa 'Dali's surrealist activities and the model of scientific experimentation'

Neil Spiller 'Deformography: the poetics of cybridised architecture'

Mark Dion in conversation with Anna Dezeuze, Julia Kelly and David Lomas

Richard Wentworth in conversation with Anna Dezeuze

Exhibition reviews

An Aside: Selected by Tacita Dean, Camden Arts Centre, 2005 (Samantha Lackey)

Drifting Objects of Dreams: The Collection of Shuzo Takiguchi, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, 2005 (Michael Richardson)

George Brecht: A Heterospective, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, 2005-2006 (Anna Dezeuze)

Magritte et la photographie, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 2005 (Patricia Allmer)

Mélancolie, génie et folie en Occident, Grand Palais, Paris, 2005-2006 (Aris Sarafianos)

Book reviews

Surrealist Art and Thought in the 1930s by Steven Harris (Natalie Adamson)

The Art of Enigma: The De Chirico Brothers and the Politics of Modernism by Keala Jewell (Anthony White)

03

Lucy Bradnock 'Lost in translation? Nancy Spero / Antonin Artaud / Jacques Derrida'

Lenka Bydzovska 'Against the Current: The Story of the Surrealist Group of Czechoslovakia'

Krzysztof Fijalkowski 'Invention, Imagination, Interpretation: Collective Activity in the Contemporary Czech and Slovak Surrealist Group'

Vojtech Lahoda 'Chaos, Mess and Uncertainty: Josef Sudek and Surrealism'

Silvano Levy 'The Del Renzio Affair: A Leadership Struggle in Wartime Surrealism'

Simone Perks 'Fatum and Fortuna: André Masson, Surrealism and the Divinatory Arts'

Bruno Solarik 'The Walking Abyss: Perspectives on Contemporary Czech and Slovak Surrealism'

Alfred Thomas 'Between Paris and Moscow: Sexuality and Politics in Interwar Czech Poetry and Film'

Ian Walker 'Between Photograph and Poem: a Study of Štyrský and Heisler’s On the Needles of these Days'

Laura Ford interviewed by David Lomas,followed by David Lomas, ‘The Great Outdoors’

Exhibition reviews:

Eyes, Lies and Illusions, Hayward Gallery, London, 2004 (Marion Endt)

Flesh at War with Enigma, Kunsthalle Basel, 2004 (Amna Malik)

Francis Alÿs: Walking Distance from the Studio, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2004 (Stephen Feeke)

Helen Chadwick, Manchester Art Gallery, 2004 (Aris Sarafianos)

Le Troisième oeil. La photographie et l'occulte, Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris, 2004 (Jeremy Stubbs)

Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing,Tate Modern, London, 2004 (Cliff Lauson)

Books reviews:

Photography and Surrealism: Sexuality, Colonialism and Social Dissent by David Bate (Samantha Lackey)

Surrealism by Mary Ann Caws and Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction by David Hopkins (Vincent Gille)

Prosthetic Gods by Hal Foster (David Hopkins)

The Uncanny by Mike Kelley (Margaret Iversen)

Ghost Ships by Robert McNab (Julia Kelly)

02

James Boaden, ‘San Francisco : Ruin of the Nineteenth Century : The Assemblage Work of Bruce Conner 1957-1962

Susan Buck-Morss, ‘Visual Studies and Global Imagination ’

Roger Cardinal, ‘Giorgio de Chirico and Surrealist Mythology’

Katharine Conley, ‘Claude Cahun’s Iconic Heads: from the “Sadistic Judith” to Human Frontier’

Anna Dezeuze, ‘Unpacking Cornell: Play and Consumption in the work of Rauschenberg, Warhol and George Brecht’

Steven Harris, ‘The art of losing oneself without getting lost: Brecht and Filliou at the Palais ideal’

Mathew Witkovsky, ‘Surrealism in the Plural: Guillaume Apollinaire, Ivan Goll and Devetsil in the 1920s’

Robert Desnos, Fantomas (translated by Timothy Adès)

Exhibition reviews:

Australian Surrealism: The Agapitos/Wilson Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (Janine Burke)

Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper, Serpentine Gallery, London (Anna Lovatt)

Mike Nelson: Triple Bluff Canyon, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (Rebecca Duclos)

Robert Filliou, Génie sans Talent, Musée d’Art moderne Lille Metropole, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France (Anna Dezeuze)

With Hidden Noise Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (Gavin Parkinson)

Books reviews:

Roger Caillois, The Edge of Surrealism: A Roger Caillois Reader (Donna Roberts)

Branden Joseph, Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo Avant-garde (David Jeffreys)

Ray Spiteri and Don LaCoss eds, Surrealism and Politics (Neil Matheson)

Georges Sebbag, André Breton: L’Amour Folie (Marie-Claire Barnet)

01

Michael Calderbank, 'Surrealism Dreamscapes : Walter Benjamin and the Arcades'

David Cunningham, 'A Question of Tomorrow : Blanchot, Surrealism and the Time of the Fragment'

Susan Laxton,  'The Guarantor of Chance: Surrealism's Ludic Practices'

Kirsten Strom,  'Resurrecting the Stylite Simon : Buñuel's Surrealist History of Film'

Susan Suleiman, 'Surrealist Black Humour: Masculine/Feminine'

Anthony Vidler, 'Surrealism Fantasy, the Uncanny and Surrealist Theories of Architecture'

Louis Aragon, A Wave of Dreams, Translated by Susan de Muth Robert Desnos, Rrose Sélavy Translated by Timothy Adès

Jake Chapman on Bataille: an Interview with Simon Baker

Book Reviews

City Gorged With Dreams by Ian Walker (Dana MacFarlane)

Du Surréalisme by Jean Clair (Jeremy Stubbs)

Exhibition Reviews

Trajectoires du rêve, Pavilion des Arts, Paris, 2003 ( Krzysztof Fijakowski)

Paul Nash , Tate Liverpool, 2003 (Andrew Causey)

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