Surrealist sabotage and the war on work. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Abigail Susik.
• Authors: Susik, Abigail
• Contents: Introduction1 Genealogy of the surrealist work refusal2 Surrealist automatism as symbolic sabotageSimone Breton and the gendered labour of the surrealist automatistTracing stenographic surrealism and the dame dactylographe Psychic automatism and feminisation3 Óscar Domínguez: autonomy and autoeroticism‘These phosphorescent youths’: Domínguez and surrealism, 1934–35Domínguez’s Machine à coudre électro-sexuelle (1934-35)Operating Maldoror’s vamp machine Dysfunctional tools in Domínguez’s anti-work oeuvre4 Direct action surrealism in ChicagoPrologue: activist avant-garde‘Incendiary time bomb’: The Rebel Worker (1964–66)Robert Green, Gallery Bugs Bunny, and Chicago automatismChicago surrealism and Herbert Marcuse contra the performance principleEpilogue: override dysfunctions and the ‘Klapheck computer’Index
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 700.41163; Surrealism; Work in art; Sabotage
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526155009; 9781526155023
• Related ISBNs: 9781526155016
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