Companion to Dada and Surrealism

David Hopkins is Professor of Art History at the University of Glasgow. An acknowledged expert on Dada and Surrealism, he has published widely on these movements, and on artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst. His books include Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst: The Bride Shared (1998) and Dada’s Boys: Masculinity After Duchamp (2007). He is also author of the bestselling short guide to the subject, Dada and Surrealism: A Short Introduction (2004).

"This collection of essays builds on and expands the critical discourse on Dada and surrealism.... Though accessible to a broad readership, the collection is intended for an academic audience and is particularly well positioned to serve advanced students. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates; graduate students."—E. K. Mix, Choice, April 2017

• List of Figures viiiEditor xiNotes on Contributors xiiAcknowledgments xviiIntroduction 1David HopkinsPart I Histories/Geographies 191 Dada’s Genesis: Zurich 21Debbie Lewer2 Neue Jugend: A Case Study in Berlin Dada 38Sherwin Simmons3 Dada Migrations: Definition, Dispersal, and the Case of Schwitters 54Michael White4 New York Dada: From End to Beginning 70David Hopkins5 Nothing, Ventured: Paris Dada into Surrealism 89Elizabeth Legge6 Surrealism and the Question of Politics, 1925–1939 110Raymond Spiteri7 “Other” Surrealisms: Center and Periphery in International Perspective 131Michael Richardson8 Dada and Surrealism in Japan 144Majella Munro9 Dada and Surrealism in Central and Eastern Europe 161Krzysztof Fijałkowski10 Surrealism in Latin America 177Dawn AdesPart II Themes and Interpretations 19711 Dissemination: The Dada and Surrealist Journals 199Emily Hage12 Artists into Curators: Dada and Surrealist Exhibition Practices 211Adam Jolles13 Dada and Surrealist Poetics 225Eric Robertson14 Chance and Automatism: Genealogies of the Dissociative in Dada and Surrealism 242Abigail Susik15 Crime/Insurrection 258Jonathan P. Eburne16 Re‐enchantment: Surrealist Discourses of Childhood, Hermeticism, and the Outmoded 270David Hopkins17 Surrealism and Natural History: Nature and the Marvelous in Breton and Caillois 287Donna Roberts18 The Surrealist Collection: Ghosts in the Laboratory 304Katharine Conley19 The Ethnographic Turn 319Julia Kelly20 Desire Bound: Violence, Body, Machine 334Neil Cox21 Equivocal Gender: Dada/Surrealism and Sexual Politics between the Wars 352Tirza True Latimer22 Feminist Interventions: Revising the Canon 366Patricia AllmerPart III Continuations/Aftermaths 38323 The Surrealist Movement since the 1940s 385Steven Harris24 Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage? The North American Reception of Dada and Surrealism 400James Boaden25 Surrealism and Counterculture 416Elliott H. King26 Assimilation: Objects; Commodities; Fashion 431Ulrich Lehmann27 Sightings: Surrealist Idiolect, Gothic Marxism, Global Perils 449Angela DimitrakakiIndex 464