The Animal Surreal: The Role of Darwin, Animals, and Evolution in Surrealism

ISBN-13: 9780367787233 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 168 str.

Kirsten Strom

Opis

The Animal Surreal explores the varied ways that Darwinian theory affected Surrealist thought, primarily through an exploration of Surrealist representations of nonhuman animals as kin to humans. It considers other animals as embodiments of the marvelous and the uncanny, and it addresses the politics of their implicit critique of anthropocentris

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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Animals, Darwin, and Surrealism

Chapter 2: The Darwinian Uncanny

Chapter 3: A Darwinian Marvelous

Chapter 4: Les Espaces des Animaux: The Politics of Space in Human-Animal Relationships

Chapter 5: Hybridity, Variability, and Mutation

Chapter 6: Max Ernst, Loplop, Totems, and Taboos

Chapter 7: Les Animaux et leurs femmes, les femmes et leurs animaux

Chapter 8: Madness, Animals, Automatons, Automatism

Chapter 9: Human Animality: Natural and Sexual Selection in the films of Luis Buñuel

Chapter 10: The Other Darwinism: Surrealism and Social Darwinism

Chapter 11: Animality, Documents, and the Early Bataille

Chapter 12: Humans, Animals, and Sacrifice in Bataille’s Later Writing

Notes on Surrealist Participants

Works Cited

Author and Artist Index

Subject Index

O autorze

Kirsten Strom is a professor of art history at Grand Valley State University where she was a recipient of the Pew Teaching Excellence Award. She has published articles and book chapters on a range of topics including postmodern design, "dance anthropology," animal studies, and Surrealism.