Revolution in the Service of the Marvelous: Surrealist Contributions to the Critique of Miserabilism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780882863504)

Cultural Writing. Essays. REVOLUTION IN THE SERVICE OF THE MARVELOUS contains twenty essays by one of contemporary surrealism's major poets and theorists, Chicago Surrealist Group co-founder Franklin Rosemont. These essays focus on ways in which surrealist perspectiveshave continued to evolve and expand since the movement's worldwide resurgence in the 1960s. This wide-ranging and well-illustrated collection includes prefaces to international surrealist exhibitions and texts concerning wilderness, the politics of humor, the black radical tradition, and the critique of whiteness--documenting key developments in surrealism's collective evolution. Other essays explore the work of individual poets, painters, musicians and dancers whose creative activity exemplifies the movement's ongoing transformative project.

Author: Franklin Rosemont
ISBN-10: 0882863509
ISBN-13: 9780882863504
Publisher: Charles Kerr
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2004
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.70d