Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comics
- Submitting institution
-
Courtauld Institute of Art
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 80
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
-
-
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- ISBN
- 9781781381434
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- -
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
-
-
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
-
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The edited volume Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comics emerged from an international conference of the same title that Parkinson organised in 2011 at The Courtauld. He subsequently corresponded with experts in the field to determine the contributors to the volume, some of whom had spoken at the conference. As well as originating the volume, securing the publisher, and organizing and editing the contributions, Parkinson wrote the introduction that historicizes and rationalizes the volume in the context of current scholarship on Surrealism, as well as two of the chapters.
This is the first book to present research into the relationship between Surrealism and science fiction and between Surrealism and comics. It is a major work of history and theory, demonstrating in detail for the first time Surrealism’s debt to Jules Verne, the shared origins of Surrealism and Anglo-American science fiction in the 1920s and the role played by Surrealism in the reception of science fiction in France from 1950, while also accounting for the interest held in comics by Surrealists in France, Britain and America from the 1940s. It includes ten contributions from an international roster of academics selected by Parkinson that examines these relationships historically and theoretically through the visual medium.
Parkinson’s own chapters present new research into the means by which Anglo-American science fiction drew on Surrealist styles and themes, and the importance of French Surrealist art in the fiction of J. G. Ballard.
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -