A series of personal and historical encounters with surrealism from
one of its foremost practitioners in the United States. "Penelope
Rosemont has given us, better than anyone else in the English
language, a marvelous, meticulous exploration of the surrealist
experience, in all its infinite variety."-Gerome Kamrowski,
American Surrealist Painter One of the hallmarks of Surrealism is
the encounter, often by chance, with a key person, place, or object
through a trajectory no one could have predicted. Penelope Rosemont
draws on a lifetime of such experiences in her collection of
essays, Surrealism: Inside the Magnetic Fields. From her youthful
forays as a radical student in Chicago to her pivotal meeting with
Andre Breton and the Surrealist Movement in Paris, Rosemont-one of
the movement's leading exponents in the United States-documents her
unending search for the Marvelous. Surrealism finds her rubbing
shoulders with some of the movement's most important visual
artists, such as Man Ray, Leonora Carrington, Mimi Parent, and
Toyen; discussing politics and spectacle with Guy Debord; and
crossing paths with poet Ted Joans and outsider artist Lee Godie.
The book also includes scholarly investigations into American
radicals like George Francis Train and Mary MacLane, the myth of
the Golden Goose, and Dada precursor Emmy Hennings. Praise for
Surrealism: "Rosemont is not delivering dry abstractions, as so
many academic 'specialists,' but telling us about warm and exciting
human encounters, illuminated by the subversive spirit of Permanent
Enchantment."-Michael Loewy, author of Ecosocialism "This
compelling and well-drawn book lets us see the adventures,
inspirations, and relationships that have shaped Penelope
Rosemont's art and rebellion."-David Roediger, author of Class,
Race, and Marxism "The broad sampling of essays included here offer
a compelling entry point for curious readers and an essential
compendium for surrealist practitioners."-Abigail Susik, professor
of art history, Willamette University "Rosemont's welcome memoir
has a double virtue, as testament to the enduring radiance of
Surrealism, and as a memento to the Sixties, revealing a sweetly
beating wonderment at the heart of that absurdly maligned
decade."-Jed Rasula, author of Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada
and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century "Artist, historian, and
social activist, Rosemont writes from the inside out. Like a rare,
hybrid flower growing out of the earth, she complicates, expands,
and opens the strange and beautiful meadow where Surrealism
continues to live and thrive."-Sabrina Orah Mark, author of Wild
Milk "In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Penelope Rosemont,
long a keeper of surrealism's revolutionary flame, shows how a
penetrating look into the past can liberate the future."-Andrew
Joron, author of The Absolute Letter "Rosemont recreates the
feverish antics and immediate reception her close-knit,
sleep-deprived, beat-attired squad find in the established,
moray-breaking Parisian and international surrealists. Revolution
is here, between the covers."-Gillian Conoley, author of A Little
More Red Sun on the Human: New and Selected Poems and translator of
Thousand Times Broken: Three Books by Henri Michaux
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