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The animal surreal : the role of Darwin, animals, and evolution in surrealism / Kirsten Strom.
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Strom, Kirsten
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, [2017]
©2017
Description
x, 167 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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NX456.5.S8 S77 2017
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Subject(s)
Darwin, Charles 1809-1882
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Influence
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Surrealism
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Themes, motives
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Animals in art
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Human beings
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Animal nature
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Identity (Philosophical concept)
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Series
Ashgate studies in surrealism.
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Studies in surrealism ; [9]
Summary note
The Animal Surreal situates Surrealism within the burgeoning field of Animal Studies by examining Surrealist representations of nonhuman animals through the lens of Darwinian theory. Unlike Marx and Freud, Darwin was rarely cited by name as a source for the Surrealists, and yet his influence is present in various ways, such as the frequent inclusion of "natural history" imagery and the exploration of themes of mutability and mutation. Animals and our relationship to them furthermore constitute a significant source of inquiry for Surrealism, as evidenced by Max Ernst’s human-bird alter-ego Loplop, their avid interest in the praying mantis, the adoption of the Minotaur as emblem, and the frequently recurring birds, insects, horses, dogs, cats, giraffes, elephants, lions, and cows, among others, represented in Surrealist poetry, painting, and film. The Animal Surreal proposes that the Surrealists portrayed such animals as if they were literal embodiments of Surrealist themes such as the marvelous and the uncanny, and it documents the numerous ways in which the Surrealists willfully engaged the politics of the animal other in ways that implicitly, and on occasion explicitly, challenged what Freud would call "human narcissism" -- Back cover.
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"An Ashgate book"--Cover.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-160) and indexes.
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Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
An introduction to animals, Darwin and surrealism
The Darwinian uncanny
A Darwinian marvelous
Les espaces des animaux: the politics of space in human-animal relationships
Hydridity, variability, and mutation
Max Ernst, Loplop, totems, and taboos
Les animaux et leurs femmes, les femmes et leurs animaux
Madness, animals, automatons, automatism
Human animality: natural and sexual selection in the films of Luis Bun̋uel
The other Darwinism: surrealism and social Darwinism
Animality, Documents, and the early Bataille
Humans, animals, and sacrifice in Bataille's later writing.
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Role of Darwin, animals, and evolution in surrealism
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9781472488213 ((hardcover))
1472488210 ((hardcover))
OCLC
978890996
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H - S
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