La poetique/politique de la mise en pages: Les revues du surrealisme et de sa dissidence. (French text)
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Title
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La poetique/politique de la mise en pages: Les revues du surrealisme et de sa dissidence. (French text)
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Identifier
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AAI9130345
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identifier
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9130345
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Creator
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Lorenz, Isabelle.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Mary Ann Caws
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Date
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1991
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Fine Arts | Literature, Modern | Art History
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Abstract
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La Revolution Surrealiste, Le Surrealisme au service de la Revolution, Documents, La Bete Noire and Minotaure show at best the elaboration of the ramifications and differences of the avant-garde in Paris between the two world wars. They are shown in the boundaries between poetry, literature and what is traditionally called the arts. This constantly new field is defined through the magazines produced by the surrealists and their dissidents. The importance of the magazine as a site for surrealist production is a function of their theory and practice of creative activity. The nearly unprecedented employment of the magazine as a medium, is one of the most heterogeneous and central aspects of the movement's activities. Nowhere can the multiplicity, the interdisciplinarity and the continuity of the avant-garde be traced with greater accuracy than in the vicissitudes of this mechanically reproduced medium. The periodical provided an ideal medium for the dynamic and highly polemical quality of the expression of the avant-garde. The temporality of the magazine, its potential for immediate, up-to-date intervention, permitted it to function as a forum for raging debates, as a calendar of current events, and as a testing ground for the most daring of new work. The collective production of the periodicals shifts the emphasis away from the individual as the site of creative expression, and instead concentrates this focus on the montage. Indeed, the paratactic organization of the magazines is, I argue, the most sustained manifestation of what I call the poetics of layout. Through this new poetic, which encompasses all domains, I demonstrate both the specificity and variety of the periodicals (the reproduction of the image of women, the place of the so called sciences, poetics/politics). This project offers the terms for a new reading of surrealism which highlights the epistemological stakes of the theory and practice of montage. The magazines demonstrate so strikingly that the poetics of layout is always already a politics of layout.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
