Book contents
- Surrealism
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Surrealism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Surrealism’s Critical Legacy
- Part I Origins: Ideas/Concepts/Interventions
- Part II Developments: Practices/Cultures/Material Forms
- Part III Applications: Heterodoxies and New Worlds
- Chapter 14 Surrealism and Schizoanalysis
- Chapter 15 The Surrealist Bestiary and Animal Philosophy
- Chapter 16 Picasso’s Habits: André Breton on Art, Nature and Reflexivity
- Chapter 17 Surrealism and Mass-Observation
- Chapter 18 Pacific Surrealism
- Chapter 19 Decolonial Surrealism
- Chapter 20 Surrealism and écriture féminine
- Chapter 21 Subcultural Receptions of Surrealism in the 1960s International Underground Press
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 18 - Pacific Surrealism
from Part III - Applications: Heterodoxies and New Worlds
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 July 2021
- Surrealism
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Surrealism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Surrealism’s Critical Legacy
- Part I Origins: Ideas/Concepts/Interventions
- Part II Developments: Practices/Cultures/Material Forms
- Part III Applications: Heterodoxies and New Worlds
- Chapter 14 Surrealism and Schizoanalysis
- Chapter 15 The Surrealist Bestiary and Animal Philosophy
- Chapter 16 Picasso’s Habits: André Breton on Art, Nature and Reflexivity
- Chapter 17 Surrealism and Mass-Observation
- Chapter 18 Pacific Surrealism
- Chapter 19 Decolonial Surrealism
- Chapter 20 Surrealism and écriture féminine
- Chapter 21 Subcultural Receptions of Surrealism in the 1960s International Underground Press
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter argues that the geographical heterodoxy of Pacific surrealism might be understood as a correlative to surrealism’s transgressive impulse, extending logics of inversion across oceanic space. It discusses how irregular forms of mapping were commensurate with surrealism’s aesthetics of defamiliarization. More specifically, the chapter discusses representations of Pacific iconography in visual artists (Man Ray, Brassaï), visits to Pacific regions by European surrealists (Paul Eluard, Jacques Viol) and the role played by surrealism in theorizations of ethnography (Claude Lévi-Strauss). It also analyzes the ways in which Pacific space was understood by theorists of surrealism such as Bernard Smith and James Clifford, while addressing the complicated political situation of surrealism in mid-twentieth-century Japan. The chapter subsequently tracks more recent manifestations of surrealism in Pacific writers and artists such as Aloï Piloko, Shane Cotton, Len Lye and Alexis Wright, commenting on connections with cultures of indigeneity and ways in which these artists integrate styles of hybridity.
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- Surrealism , pp. 325 - 341Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021