This excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism blends expert synthesis of the latest scholarship with completely new research, offering historical coverage as well as in-depth discussion of thematic areas ranging from criminality to gender.This book provides an excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism from some of the finest established and up-and-coming scholars in the fieldOffers historical coverage as well as indepth discussion of thematic areas ranging from criminality to genderOne of the first studies to produce global coverage of the two movements, it also includes a section dealing with the critical and cultural aftermath of Dada and Surrealism in the later twentieth centuryDada and Surrealism are arguably the most popular areas of modern art, both in the academic and public spheres

David Hopkins is Professor of Art History at the University of Glasgow. An acknowledged expert on Dada and Surrealism, he has published widely on these movements, and on artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst. His books includeMarcel Duchamp and Max Ernst: The Bride Shared (1998) andDadas Boys: Masculinity After Duchamp (2007). He is also author of the bestselling short guide to the subject,Dada and Surrealism: A Short Introduction (2004).

List of Figures viii

Editor xi

Notes on Contributors xii

Acknowledgments xvii

Introduction 1David Hopkins

Part I Histories/Geographies 19

1 Dadas Genesis: Zurich 21Debbie Lewer

2 Neue Jugend: A Case Study in Berlin Dada 38Sherwin Simmons

3 Dada Migrations: Definition, Dispersal, and the Case of Schwitters 54Michael White

4 New York Dada: From End to Beginning 70David Hopkins

5 Nothing, Ventured: Paris Dada into Surrealism 89Elizabeth Legge

6 Surrealism and the Question of Politics, 19251939 110Raymond Spiteri

7 Other Surrealisms: Center and Periphery in International Perspective 131Michael Richardson

8 Dada and Surrealism in Japan 144Majella Munro

9 Dada and Surrealism in Central and Eastern Europe 161Krzysztof Fijakowski

10 Surrealism in Latin America 177Dawn Ades

Part II Themes and Interpretations 197

11 Dissemination: The Dada and Surrealist Journals 199Emily Hage

12 Artists into Curators: Dada and Surrealist Exhibition Practices 211Adam Jolles

13 Dada and Surrealist Poetics 225Eric Robertson

14 Chance and Automatism: Genealogies of the Dissociative in Dada and Surrealism 242Abigail Susik

15 Crime/Insurrection 258Jonathan P. Eburne

16 Reenchantment: Surrealist Discourses of Childhood, Hermeticism, and the Outmoded 270David Hopkins

17 Surrealism and Natural History: Nature and the Marvelous in Breton and Caillois 287Donna Roberts

18 The Surrealist Collection: Ghosts in the Laboratory 304Katharine Conley

19 The Ethnographic Turn 319Julia Kelly

20 Desire Bound: Violence, Body, Machine 334Neil Cox

21 Equivocal Gender: Dada/Surrealism and Sexual Politics between the Wars 352Tirza True Latimer

22 Feminist Interventions: Revising the Canon 366Patricia Allmer

Part III Continuations/Aftermaths 383

23 The Surrealist Movement since the 1940s 385Steven Harris

24 Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage? The North American Reception of Dada and Surrealism 400James Boaden

25 Surrealism and Counterculture 416Elliott H. King

26 Assimilation: Objects; Commodities; Fashion 431Ulrich Lehmann

27 Sightings: Surrealist Idiolect, Gothic Marxism, Global Perils 449Angela Dimitrakaki

Index 464