Dafydd Jones

The fictions of Arthur Cravan (eBook, ePUB)

Poetry, boxing and revolution

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526133250
• Artikelnr.: 56523922

Autorenporträt

Dafydd W. Jones lectured in fine art and art history at Cardiff School of Art (1995-2012), and is currently the Editor of the University of Wales Press. He is the author of Dada 1916 in Theory: Practices of Critical Resistance and editor of the research volume Dada Culture: Critical Texts on the Avant-Garde.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 On the genealogy of Arthur Cravan 2 Enter Colossus 3 To be
an American in Paris 4 'All words are lies': Maintenant, April 1912-July
1913 5 'Life has no solution': Maintenant, November 1913-April 1915 6 The
vision of a struggling movement: Barcelona 1916 7 'Pure affect': New York
1917 8 Being as being, and nothing more Conclusion Index