The legendary poet and boxer Arthur Cravan, a fleeting figure on the periphery of early twentieth-century European avant-gardism, is frequently invoked as proto-Dada and Surrealist exemplar. Yet he remains an insubstantial phenomenon, not seen since 1918, lost through historical interstices, clouded...

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1. Verfasser:	Jones, Dafydd W. 1965- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Manchester Manchester University Press 2019
Schlagworte:	Cravan, Arthur > 1887-1918 Cravan, Arthur / 1887-1920 / Criticism and interpretation Surrealism Dadaism Cravan, Arthur / 1887-1920? Criticism, interpretation, etc
Zusammenfassung:	The legendary poet and boxer Arthur Cravan, a fleeting figure on the periphery of early twentieth-century European avant-gardism, is frequently invoked as proto-Dada and Surrealist exemplar. Yet he remains an insubstantial phenomenon, not seen since 1918, lost through historical interstices, clouded in drifting untruths. This study processes philosophical positions into a practical recovery - from nineteenth-century Nietzsche to twentieth-century Deleuze - with thoughts on subjectivity, metaphor, representation and multiplicity. From fresh readings and new approaches - of Cravan's first published work as a manifesto of simulation; of contributors to his Paris review Maintenant as impostures for the Delaunays; and of the conjuring of Cravan in Picabia's elegiac film Entr'acte - The fictions of Arthur Cravan concludes with the absent poet-boxer's eventual casting off into a Surrealist legacy, and his becoming what metaphor is: a means to represent the world
Beschreibung:	xvi, 317 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:	9781526133236 1526133237