1st Edition
The Animal Surreal The Role of Darwin, Animals, and Evolution in Surrealism
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Animals, Darwin, and Surrealism
Chapter 2: The Darwinian Uncanny
Chapter 3: A Darwinian Marvelous
Chapter 4: Les Espaces des Animaux: The Politics of Space in Human-Animal Relationships
Chapter 5: Hybridity, Variability, and Mutation
Chapter 6: Max Ernst, Loplop, Totems, and Taboos
Chapter 7: Les Animaux et leurs femmes, les femmes et leurs animaux
Chapter 8: Madness, Animals, Automatons, Automatism
Chapter 9: Human Animality: Natural and Sexual Selection in the films of Luis Buñuel
Chapter 10: The Other Darwinism: Surrealism and Social Darwinism
Chapter 11: Animality, Documents, and the Early Bataille
Chapter 12: Humans, Animals, and Sacrifice in Bataille’s Later Writing
Notes on Surrealist Participants
Works Cited
Author and Artist Index
Subject Index
Biography
Kirsten Strom is a professor of art history at Grand Valley State University where she was a recipient of the Pew Teaching Excellence Award. She has published articles and book chapters on a range of topics including postmodern design, "dance anthropology," animal studies, and Surrealism.
