Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Surrealism as a Collective Adventure
Note on the selection of texts
1. Historical Orientation of Surrealism
2. Surrealism Vis-a-vis Revolutionary Politics
3. The Security of the Spirit
4. Declarations on Colonialism
Appendices
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Michael Richardson lectures in cultural theory and social anthropology at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London. He edited and translated with Krzysztof Fijalkowski Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and the Caribbean (Verso, 1996) and more recently Georges Bataille: Essential Writings (Sage Publications, 1998). Krzysztof Fijatkowski is a lecturer in visual culture and art history at Norwich School of Art and Design and the University of East Anglia. He is also an occasional exhibition curator, artist and guitarist.

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