American Superrealism: Nathanael West and the Politics of Representation in the 1930sUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1997 M11 1 - 200 páginas Nathanael West has been hailed as “an apocalyptic writer,” “a writer on the left,” and “a precursor to postmodernism.” But until now no critic has succeeded in fully engaging West’s distinctive method of negation. In American Superrealism, Jonathan Veitch examines West’s letters, short stories, screenplays and novels—some of which are discussed here for the first time—as well as West’s collaboration with William Carlos Williams during their tenure as the editors of Contact. Locating West in a lively, American avant-garde tradition that stretches from Marcel Duchamp to Andy Warhol, Veitch explores the possibilities and limitations of dada and surrealism—the use of readymades, scatalogical humor, human machines, “exquisite corpses”—as modes of social criticism. American Superrealism offers what is surely the definitive study of West, as well as a provocative analysis that reveals the issue of representation as the central concern of Depression-era America. |
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... Dada and surrealism — offers what is probably the most insightful means of understanding the particular obstacles to the pursuit of social knowl- edge in a society increasingly dominated by the obfuscating spectacles of advanced ...
... Dada and surrealism in America long before the advent of abstract expressionism and pop . Inspired by the examples of Gertrude Stein , the Ar- mory Show , Picabia and 291 , Duchamp and his readymades ( in the teens ) , the surrealist ...
... Dada and surrealism — its scatological humor , its use of the readymade , its fascina- tion with human machines and " exquisite corpses , " its systematic substi- tution of artifice for nature — and extends their capacity for social ...
... Dada paintings , poems , critical essays , and novels , Celeste Ugolin [ 1926 ] being the most famous . There is nothing in Dessaignes ' work in particular that would link him to West ; rather , it is the jeu d'esprit of Dada itself ...
... Dada's anarchic style of rebellion with a more focused , socially conscious orientation . Consequently , his subsequent fiction has far more in common with the politicized " interventions " of Berlin dadaists like Hannah Hoch , George ...
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| 3 | |
| 15 | |
| 23 | |
Contact | 47 |
Miss Lonelyhearts | 67 |
A Cool Million | 88 |
The Day of the Locust | 113 |
Madonnas Bustier or The Burning of Los Angeles | 132 |
Notes | 139 |
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