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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... Greenberg entitled " Surrealist Painting " ( 1944 ) . In that essay Greenberg offers an illuminating distinction between two very different kinds of surrealism — a distinction largely grounded on the use of the technique of automatism ...
... Greenberg's attempt to define surrealism in relation to the technique of automatism helps to distinguish between two radically different ap- proaches toward art and ultimately , as we shall see , toward the problem of representation ...
... Greenberg tells us they should , these artists drew on a repertoire of imagery that of- fered itself up " before ... Greenberg's words , the most conventional " modalities of three - dimensional vision " derived from the mummified ...
... Greenberg's account , the motive for a naturalistic technique is plain : " The more vividly , literally , painstakingly the absurd and the fantastic are represented , the greater their shock . " 25 There is no doubt some truth to this ...
... Greenberg appropriated for high modernism , West was unwilling to move beyond representation to embrace pure aestheticism or affirm a higher spiritual reality . For West representation or similitude constitutes the sum total and limit ...
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| 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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