A Companion to Dada and Surrealism
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University of Glasgow
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-02996
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Wiley Blackwell
- ISBN
- 9781118476185
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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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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- Double-weighted statement
- This edited volume (496 pages) provides a range of perspectives on a large and burgeoning research field. Designed and structured by Hopkins to emphasise the historiographic and methodological dimensions of Dada and Surrealism in particular, it also includes three substantial essays by him, plus twenty-five essays by other international experts, on Dada and Surrealism as interlinked topics. It deals fully with the geographical expansion of the movements (including, for instance, on Japan, Eastern Europe and Latin America) and examines new thought on a wide range of thematic topics (such as criminality, counterculture, natural history and childhood).
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- Additional information
- The project was an ambitious one: to produce an over-arching overview of the entire research field concerning the two influential early twentieth century art movements, Dada and Surrealism. With this in mind a number of strands of the research process were identified by the editor, Prof David Hopkins. These included an historiographic overview (the basis for the book's Introduction); a revised account of the geographic scope and spread of the movements which would take account of the new 'globalized' conception of them developed in the last decade or so (ten essays in the book's first section); a selection of the key themes that could be extrapolated from current research trends (Dada and Surrealism in relation to discourses of natural history, childhood, ethnography, sexuality etc: eleven essays in the second section of the volume); and a completely new account of the 'aftermath' of both movements in the post-Second World War period which would raise questions about the nature of their assimilation into culture at large , counterculture etc (five essays in the last section). All of these issues were dealt with, in terms of overall methodology, by reading Dada and Surrealism as linked movements (and thus counteracting the tendency, in the last 20-odd years, to look at them separately). Having determined this overall concept and nature of the research process, Prof Hopkins contacted an international group of researchers with a view to producing expert accounts of the various facets of the topic, and produced three original essays himself (the general introduction outlining the research strategy, and two essays on New York and discourses of childhood in Dada and Surrealism).
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- Non-English
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