Rediscover the most insightful and incendiary cultural commentaries from a leading figure in the revival of Surrealism. Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues is a collection of Franklin Rosemont’s writings on popular culture over a period of more than forty years. Rosemont, a self-taught scholar, poet, and artist, playfully uncovers the sometimes hidden-in-plain-sight writers and artists who managed to be both popular, vernacular, and in their own ways profoundly revolutionary. Rosemont skillfully weaves together what most would regard as unlikely threads. The labor culture of the…mehr
Rediscover the most insightful and incendiary cultural commentaries from a leading figure in the revival of Surrealism. Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues is a collection of Franklin Rosemont’s writings on popular culture over a period of more than forty years. Rosemont, a self-taught scholar, poet, and artist, playfully uncovers the sometimes hidden-in-plain-sight writers and artists who managed to be both popular, vernacular, and in their own ways profoundly revolutionary. Rosemont skillfully weaves together what most would regard as unlikely threads. The labor culture of the nineteenth-century anarchist movement gains new meaning when connected to the famed Chicago musicians of blues and jazz. His interests from childhood extended from his favorite animators and comic art—Mel Blanc and Tex Avery, Scrooge McDuck, Mighty Mouse, Krazy Kat, Smokey Stover, and Powerhouse Pepper—to nineteenth-century drug-taker Benjamin Paul Blood, or the barely remembered best-selling utopian writer Edward Bellamy. Palindromes and other wordplay counted along with radical environmentalism, modern dance alongside the “mad” self-taught writer-artist Henry Darger. Find all these and much more, exploring the inventory of Franklin Rosemont’s discoveries and his luminous, unpredictable exploration of himself. An introductory essay by Abigail Susik and an afterword by Paul Buhle frame his work and life.
Franklin Rosemont (1943–2009) was the founder of the Chicago Surrealist circle of the 1960s–70s and later, the central figure in the rebirth of the Charles H. Kerr Company during the 1980s, and a prolific author on labor history and culture.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: ‘Long Live Krazy Kat! Long Live the Surrealist Revolution!’: Franklin Rosemont’s Search for Surrealist Affinities, by Abigail Susik I. Americana and Chicagoana 1. The Seismograph of Subversion: Notes on Some American Precursors 000 2. Notes on the Legacy of Cthulhu 3. Frank Belknap Long 4. Free Play and No Limit: An Introduction to Edward Bellamy’s Utopia 5. A Bomb-Toting, Long-Haired, Wild-Eyed Fiend: The Image of the Anarchist in Popular Culture 6. Writing on the Telephone 7. The Rise and Fall of the Dil Pickle II. Comics, Animation, and Self-Taught Artists 8. Introduction to the Life and Times of the Incredible Hulk 9. Bugs Bunny and Dialectics 10. Homage to Henry Darger 11. Basil Wolverton (Powerhouse Pepper) 12. Bill Holman (Smoky Stover) 13. Carl Barks (Uncle Scrooge) 14. Chester Gould (Dick Tracy) 15. George Herriman (Krazy Kat) 16. Homage to Tex Avery 17. Mel Blanc, Wizard of Audio 18. Dream-Conscious Times: Surrealism and Early Cinema 19. A Short Treatise on Wobbly Cartoons (1988) III. Music, Cinema, and Dance 20. Mods, Rockers, and the Revolution 21. The Jimi Hendrix Experience 22. A Revolutionary Poetic Tradition 23. Black Music, by Any Means Necessary 24. Black Music and the Surrealist Revolution 25. Buster Keaton 26. Modern Dance IV. Labor History and Culture 27. T-Bone Slim and the Phonetic Cabala 28. Juice Is Stranger than Friction: T-Bone Slim 29. Joe Hill V. Play and Humor 30. Rats Live on No Evil Star: A Selection of Palindromes 31. Humor: Here Today and Everywhere Tomorrow: A Short Introduction to the Next Revolution 32. Revolution as Play VI. Ecology 33. Radical Environmentalism VII. Autobiography and Reminiscences 34. Autobiographical Kaleidoscope 35. My Three San Francisco Renaissances Afterword, by Paul Buhle
Acknowledgments Introduction: ‘Long Live Krazy Kat! Long Live the Surrealist Revolution!’: Franklin Rosemont’s Search for Surrealist Affinities, by Abigail Susik I. Americana and Chicagoana 1. The Seismograph of Subversion: Notes on Some American Precursors 000 2. Notes on the Legacy of Cthulhu 3. Frank Belknap Long 4. Free Play and No Limit: An Introduction to Edward Bellamy’s Utopia 5. A Bomb-Toting, Long-Haired, Wild-Eyed Fiend: The Image of the Anarchist in Popular Culture 6. Writing on the Telephone 7. The Rise and Fall of the Dil Pickle II. Comics, Animation, and Self-Taught Artists 8. Introduction to the Life and Times of the Incredible Hulk 9. Bugs Bunny and Dialectics 10. Homage to Henry Darger 11. Basil Wolverton (Powerhouse Pepper) 12. Bill Holman (Smoky Stover) 13. Carl Barks (Uncle Scrooge) 14. Chester Gould (Dick Tracy) 15. George Herriman (Krazy Kat) 16. Homage to Tex Avery 17. Mel Blanc, Wizard of Audio 18. Dream-Conscious Times: Surrealism and Early Cinema 19. A Short Treatise on Wobbly Cartoons (1988) III. Music, Cinema, and Dance 20. Mods, Rockers, and the Revolution 21. The Jimi Hendrix Experience 22. A Revolutionary Poetic Tradition 23. Black Music, by Any Means Necessary 24. Black Music and the Surrealist Revolution 25. Buster Keaton 26. Modern Dance IV. Labor History and Culture 27. T-Bone Slim and the Phonetic Cabala 28. Juice Is Stranger than Friction: T-Bone Slim 29. Joe Hill V. Play and Humor 30. Rats Live on No Evil Star: A Selection of Palindromes 31. Humor: Here Today and Everywhere Tomorrow: A Short Introduction to the Next Revolution 32. Revolution as Play VI. Ecology 33. Radical Environmentalism VII. Autobiography and Reminiscences 34. Autobiographical Kaleidoscope 35. My Three San Francisco Renaissances Afterword, by Paul Buhle
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