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Surrealism and Animation: Transnational Connections, 1920-Present

by Abigail Susik
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781350475915
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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  • Pages: 384
  • Original Price: USD 130.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 454 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History / 20th & 21st Century and Film / Genres / Animated

From Betty Boop to Donald Duck, Tex Avery to Walt Disney, collage animation to Japanese anime, and Claymation to 3D animation, Surrealism and Animation is the first book to identify correspondences between the art of animation and the International Surrealist Movement.

Sharing a deep commitment to a reanimation of everyday life, surrealist artists and animators sought a marvellous, living form of art. Cartoons and trick films by pioneers such as Georges Méliès were influential for Salvador Dalí and André Breton, among others; many other surrealists and their associates such as Max Ernst, Joseph Cornell, Hans Richter, Len Lye, Roland Topor, Jan Svankmajer, and Lawrence Jordan turned to animated cinema and theories of animacy to express their surrealist visions.

Surrealism and Animation is the first book devoted to surrealism's vivid engagement with the history, theory, and medium of animation on a transnational basis. Featuring seventeen essays by leading and emerging scholars, as well as interviews with contemporary artists Penny Slinger and Jacolby Satterwhite, this collection investigates a shimmering range of topics on animated surrealism, including black humour, queer subjectivities, ecofeminism, Black surrealisms, and more.

Fijalkowski, Krzysztof: - Krzysztof Fijalkowski is Professor of Visual Culture at Norwich University of the Arts, UK. He has published in the history and theory of Surrealism, and is co-editor of Bloomsbury's Transnational Surrealism series.

Susik, Abigail: - Abigail Susik is Associate Professor of Art History at Willamette University, USA, and joint editor of the Transnational Surrealism series. She is the author of Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work (2021), editor of Resurgence! Jonathan Leake, Radical Surrealism, and the Resurgence Youth Movement, 1964-1967 (2023), and coeditor of the volumes Surrealism and Film after 1945: Absolutely Modern Mysteries (2021) and Radical Dreams: Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance (2022).

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