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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... aesthetic strategies of 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 ...
... aesthetic stance into a fruitful mode of criticism . Indeed , I will argue that West takes the traditional motifs , strategies , and concerns of Dada and surrealism — its scatological humor , its use of the readymade , its fascina- tion ...
... aesthetic achievement of the decade ) can be found in the photographs taken of tenant farmers , small towns , and other rural subjects under the auspices of the FSA . " In our entire collection , " Roy Stryker , the head of the ...
... aesthetic im- plications that challenge the very foundation of the modernist art Green- berg espoused . Instead of " surrendering to their medium , " as Greenberg tells us they should , these artists drew on a repertoire of imagery that ...
... aesthetic responses , which Foucault associates with many of the same artists that Greenberg did . On one hand we ... aesthetics than is usually thought . . . . In its cancellation of representation abstraction preserves it ...
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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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