Dissident Designs and Ethnographic Surrealisms
- Submitting institution
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The University of Huddersfield
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 20
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- Objects of Desire : Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today
- Publisher
- Vitra Design Museum
- ISBN
- 3945852331
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The book Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924–Today accompanied the exhibition of the same name at the Vitra Design Museum in 2019, and set within this context, this book chapter attempts to develop a previously overlooked form of dissident surrealist design using the ethnographic writings of Michel Leiris and Claude Levi-Strauss as a blueprint. This contrasts sharply with the focus of the other chapters in the book that adhere to the more widely considered writings of their contemporaries, Louis Aragon and Andre Breton. The ethnographic, dissident form of Surrealism is interpreted in terms of method rather than style in order that a more intensive account of its impact on design can be developed. Beginning with a detailed analysis of Levi-Strauss’ ‘New York in 1941’, the essay explores a series of correspondences between the theorists Leiris and George Bataille and Max Ernst and Carlo Mollino. These correspondences are then threaded through into the present with the designs of Jurgen Bey and Fernando and Humberto Campana. The exhibition ‘Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924–Today’ following its display at Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany toured to Barcelona, 27February-7 June 2020; Madrid, 9 July-25 October 2020; Sevilla, 24 November 2020-21 March 2021; and Zarago, and was accompanied at each venue by a programme of public events.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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