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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... artists made Dada and surrealism integral to their work : among them , Man Ray , Joseph Stella , Charles Demuth , Peter Blume , Morton Schamberg , Djuna Barnes , the Arensberg circle , Wallace Stevens , Mina Loy , Charles Henri Ford ...
... artists like Nathanael West have managed to fashion that anti- 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 ...
... artists in their attempt to provide them- selves with what Andre Breton described as an " initiatory tradition . " 6 Beyond their mutual interest in " the dehumanized marvelous , the delib- erately criminal and imbecilic , " West was ...
... artist's traditional obligation to represent the visible world faithfully , automatism " serves to lift inhibitions which prevent the artist from surrendering , as he needs to , to his medium . " And anyone who knows anything about ...
... artists the unconscious could never become what Arp once described as a world of " unlimited freedom " ; 20 rather , the unconscious reveals itself to be a world that is , as Rosalind Krauss puts it , " already filled , already — to say ...
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| 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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