Books in the Studies in Surrealism series

Taking its name and its departure point from the 1933 Surrealist photographs of Brassai and Dali, Found Sculpture and Photography from Surrealism to Contemporary Art brings a unique Surrealist inflection to the rethinking of the sculptural object. This collection of essays questions the nature of sculptural practice.

This study reconsiders Surrealist theatre specifically from the perspective of ludics-a poetics of play and games-an ideal approach to the Surrealists, whose games blur the boundaries between the 'playful' and the 'serious.' Beginning with the Surrealists' 'one-into-another' game and its illustration of Breton's ludic dramatic theory.

Focusing on Joseph Cornell's evocative and profound references to children and their stories, this title studies the relationship between the artist's work on childhood and his search for a transfigured concept of time. It also situates Cornell and his art in the broader context of the transatlantic avant-garde of the 1930s and 40s.

Surrealism and Photography in Czechoslovakia sheds much-needed light on the location of the single greatest concentration of Surrealist photography-the Czech Republic-and examines the culture and tradition of Surrealist photography that has taken root and flourished there. This volume explores a rich and important artistic output.

Shedding new light on the literary oeuvre of non-French writers who worked both within and against a Surrealist framework, this book proposes a new way of re-evaluating aspects of international Surrealism by means of the category of divin fou, and consequently deploys theories of sacred ecstasy as developed by the College de Sociologie.

Based on the author's disseration (doctoral)--Linkeoping University, 2012.