Corpses mark surrealism's path through the twentieth century,
providing material evidence of the violence in modern life. Though
the shifting group of poets, artists, and critics who made up the
surrealist movement were witness to total war, revolutionary
violence, and mass killing, it was the tawdry reality of everyday
crime that fascinated them. Jonathan P. Eburne shows us how this
focus reveals the relationship between aesthetics and politics in
the thought and artwork of the surrealists and establishes their
movement as a useful platform for addressing the contemporary
problem of violence, both individual and political.In a book
strikingly illustrated with surrealist artworks and their sometimes
gruesome source material, Eburne addresses key individual works by
both better-known surrealist writers and artists (including Andre
Breton, Louis Aragon, Aime Cesaire, Jacques Lacan, Georges
Bataille, Max Ernst, and Salvador Dali) and lesser-known figures
(such as Rene Crevel, Simone Breton, Leonora Carrington, Benjamin
Peret, and Jules Monnerot). For Eburne "the art of crime" denotes
an array of cultural production including sensationalist
journalism, detective mysteries, police blotters, crime scene
photos, and documents of medical and legal opinion as well as the
roman noir, in particular the first crime novel of the American
Chester Himes. The surrealists collected and scrutinized such
materials, using them as the inspiration for the outpouring of
political tracts, pamphlets, and artworks through which they sought
to expose the forms of violence perpetrated in the name of the
state, its courts, and respectable bourgeois values.Concluding with
the surrealists' quarrel with the existentialists and their bitter
condemnation of France's anticolonial wars, Surrealism and the Art
of Crime establishes surrealism as a vital element in the
intellectual, political, and artistic history of the twentieth
century."
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