The Routledge Companion to Surrealism

Kirsten Strom is Professor of Art History at Grand Valley State University.

Introduction

Kirsten Strom

Part One: Concepts and Practices

Exploratory Themes

1. Dreams and Humor

Natalya Lusty

2. Play, Games and Chance

Susan Laxton

3. The Marvelous and the Uncanny

Andrea Gremels and Kirsten Strom

4. Convulsive Beauty and Mad Love

Gavin Parkinson

5. The Occult, Magic and Alchemy

Rachael Grew

6. Toward a Total Animism: Surrealism and Nature

Kristoffer Nohedon

Protestations

7. Capitalism and Colonialism

Michael Richardson

8. Limits Not Frontiers: Surrealist Resistance to Nationalism, Patriotism, and Militarism

Krzysztof Fijalkowski

9. Catholicism and Family Values

Miguel Escribano

Creative Applications

10. Verbal Techniques

Madeleine Chalmers

11. Visual Techniques

Elliott King

12. Buñuel and Dalí, Un Chien andalou

Elza Adamowicz

Part Two: Lessons from Paris

Tensions and Dissensions

13. "Anarchy"…or Anarchism?: Dada in Paris and the Shifting Politics of Irreverence

Theresa Papanikolas

14. Georges Bataille, André Breton and the Culture of Surrealism

Raymond Spiteri

15. Surrealism and the French Communist Party

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen

Public Interfaces

16. Surrealism’s Publics

Rachel Silveri

17. Surrealism on Display: American Reception and Expansion

Sandra Zalman

Part Three: Situated Contexts: Adaptations and Translations

18. Surrealism in the Arab World

Riad Kherdeen

19. Surrealism and Australia

Gavin Yates

20. Surrealism in Belgium: A Never-Ending Story

Pierre Taminiaux

21. Surrealism in the Caribbean in the 1940s: Transnational Encounters

Paulina Caro Troncoso

22. Surrealism in Chicago

Penelope Rosemont

23. Surrealism in China

Lauren Walden

24. Surrealism in the Czech Lands

Malynne Sternstein

25. Surrealism in England

Christina Heflin

26. Surrealism in Greece

Victoria Ferentinou

27. Surealis Yogya and other Surrealist Moments in Indonesia in the Twentieth Century

Tessel Bauduin

28. Surrealism in Japan

Chinghsin Wu

29. Surrealism in Mexico

Melanie Nicholson

30. Romanian Surrealism

Cosana Eram

31. Scandinavian Surrealism

Kerry Greaves

32. Surrealist Dialogues in South America

María Clara Bernal

33. Surrealism and Spain

Maite Barragán

34. Surrealism and Post-War West Germany

Patricia Allmer

Part Four: Critical Dialogues

The Politics of Collecting

35. L’élan surréaliste: Surrealist aspirations and the power and primacy of Oceanic Art

Maia Nuku

36. The Surrealist Experience of Indigenous North America: A Second "Discovery" of the Americas

Marco Polo Juarez Cruz

Gender and Sexuality

37. Feminist Encounters with Surrealism: Revisiting the Formative Critiques

Anna Watz

38. Visions of Androgyny

Abigail Susik

39. Radical Muses

Catriona McAra and Jonathan P. Eburne

40. Dismembered Muses and Mirrors that Bite: A Trans Perspective on Gender Variance in Surrealist Art

Jordan Reznick

Part Five: Further Reaches

41. The Intellectual Resonances of Surrealism

Bruce Baugh

42. Surrealist Resonances in Contemporary Art

Craig Adcock

43. The Hybrid and Surreal Memoirs of Tameca Cole, Raymond Towler, Shay Youngblood and Steve Cormany

Rochelle Spencer

44. Inquiry on Surrealism in 2024

Jonathan P. Eburne, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Andrea Gremels, Melanie Nicholson, Michael Richardson, Penelope Rosemont, Rachel Silveri, Rochelle Spencer, Abigail Susik, Pierre Taminiaux