... This chapter delves into the unexplored Surrealist connections between visual artists affiliated with the Nuyorican Poets Café during the late 1970s and early 1980s, challenging the conventional understanding of the Café’s legacy. By spotlighting the poetry and visual art of Lois Elaine Griffith...

... have only been cursorily examined in relation to the poem—allow us to appraise anew a canonical text written amid the incipient rise of fascism in Europe and increasing anticolonial demonstrations throughout the colonized world. Rather than mere illustrations, the chapter shows how Lam’s surrealist...

... Jill Johnston reimagined herself as a queer lesbian subject through the figure of poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who—like Johnston—used surrealist techniques to reconfigure the relationship between art and criticism. This interlude explores the ways in which Johnston drew on Apollinaire...

... This chapter is concerned with mapping the terrain of the surrealist aesthetic revolution. It focuses on the period between 1925 and 1932, when the surrealists attempted to develop an image-space that would facilitate active engagement with the Parti communiste française (PCF). What...

... delves into the unexplored Surrealist connections between visual artists affiliated with the Nuyorican Poets Café during the late 1970s and early 1980s, challenging the conventional understanding of the Café’s legacy. By spotlighting the poetry and visual art of Lois Elaine Griffith, one of the last...

... and Surrealist legacy, understanding his work as part of a larger critique of consumerist culture. The effects of an accelerating consumer culture were being more and more discussed by the French press, which often blamed the United States for the new developments. This chapter understands the interest...