Surrealist sabotage and the war on work (eBook)

Abigail Susik (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
296 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-5500-9 (ISBN)

Infos

In Surrealist sabotage and the war on work, art historian Abigail Susik uncovers the expansive parameters of the international surrealist movement's ongoing engagement with an aesthetics of sabotage between the 1920s and the 1970s, demonstrating how surrealists unceasingly sought to transform the work of art into a form of unmanageable anti-work. In four case studies devoted to surrealism's transatlantic war on work, Susik analyses how artworks and texts by Man Ray, Andre Breton, Simone Breton, Andre Thirion, Oscar Dominguez, Konrad Klapheck, and the Chicago surrealists, among others, were pivotally impacted by the intransigent surrealist concepts of principled work refusal, permanent strike, and autonomous pleasure. Underscoring surrealism's profound relevance for readers engaged in ongoing debates about gendered labour and the wage gap, endemic over-work and exploitation, and the vicissitudes of knowledge work and the gig economy, Surrealist sabotage and the war on work reveals that surrealism's creative work refusal retains immense relevance in our wired world.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.10.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 17 colour illustrations, 46 black & white illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: André Breton • automatism • Chicago surrealism • Herbert Marcuse • Konrad Klapheck • Man Ray • Óscar Domínguez • Salvador Dalí • Simone Breton • Work refusal
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-5500-1 / 1526155001
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-5500-9 / 9781526155009