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A Cavalier History of Surrealism

Jules-François Dupuis [Raoul Vaneigem]

Histoire désinvolte du surréalisme (Nonville: Paul Vermont, 1977)

Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith (AK Press, 1999)
 

Author's Note

1

History and Surrealism
The Crisis of Culture
The Break from Dada
The Specificity of Surrealism
In the Shadow of the Communist Party

2

Changing Life
The Refusal of Survival
Fragments of a Project of Human Emancipation
Knowledge of the Human and Its Experimental Investigation

3

Transforming the World
Revolutionary Ideology
An Informal Organization

4

Promoting the Image as Object
Language and its Subversion
The Savage Eye and the Civilization of the Image

5

Converting to Mysticism
Reconsecration
An Anti-Chistian Ecumenism

6

Now

Translator's Acknowledgments