This volume evolved from "Vivísimo Muerto: Debates on Surrealism in Latin America," a symposium held at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, 25/26 June 2010. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Wanderers: surrealism and contemporary Latin American art and fiction / Graciela Speranza. The surrealism effect: legacies and reception in art, literature, and politics. "We who have neither church nor country": César Moro and surrealism / Dawn Ades ; Semiotics of the body and the passions in César Moro's love letters and poems / Yolanda Westphalen ; Making the stone speak: César Moro and the object / Kent Dickson -- Surrealist encounters in the new world: pre-Columbian and Northwest Coast art. Benjamin Péret and Paul Westheim: surrealism and other genealogies in the land of the Aztecs / Rita Eder ; Anthropology in the journals Dyn and El hijo pródigo: a comparative analysis of surrealist inspiration / Daniel Garza Usabiaga ; Wolfgang Paalen: the totem as sphinx / Andreas Neufert -- Revisiting the surrealism revolution: ideology and action. André Breton's anthology of freedom: the contagious power of revolt / Maria Clara Bernal ; "My goddesses and my monsters": Maria Martins and surrealism in the 1940s / Terri Geis -- The surrealism effect: legacies and reception in art, literature, and politics. A note concerning causality: Julio Cortázar and surrealism / Gavin Parkinson ; The photographic legacy of surrealism in late-twentieth-century Chilean poetry / Matías Ayala ; Wanderers: surrealism and contemporary Latin American art and fiction / Graciela Speranza.
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