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Surrealism: Crossings / Frontiers

November 30, 2001

London, United Kingdom

Fine Arts

Host: Institute of Romance Studies
Homepage: http://www.sas.ac.uk/irs
Email: irs@sas.ac.uk

Organizers: Elza Adamowicz at e.adamowicz@qmul.ac.uk and the Institute of Romance Studies at irs@sas.ac.uk

Description:
This one day interdisciplinary conference will focus on crossings in Surrealism. The idea of frontiers, limits and borders will be explored in topics such as transgression and desire, frontiers between genres or genders, limits of the unconscious, borders between poetry and painting. The conference coincides with the exhibition on Surrealism to be held at the Tate Modern from 20 September 2001-1 January 2002. Surrealism: Desire Unbound is the first major exhibition of international surrealism to be held in London for over twenty years.

Speakers: Roger Cardinal, University of Kent, The Travels of André Breton; David Lomas, University of Manchester, Double Vertigo: On Some Motifs in Masson; Johanna Malt, King's College London,Recycling, Contamination and Compulsion: Practices of the'objet surréaliste'; Marie-Claire Barnet, University of Durham, Amour flou: Mansour, Deharme and (Fe)male Desire; Mary Ann Caws, City University of New York, Crossing the Poetry/Prose Divide; Jacqueline Rattray, University of Aberdeen,From France to Spain and Beyond: A Journey of Mad Love with José María Hinojosa; David Bate, University of Westminster,The Space of the Other; Michel Remy, University of Nice, British Surrealist Painting and Writing: Re-Marking the Margin.

Mail Address:

Institute of Romance Studies
Senate House, Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
Tel: (+44) (0)20 7862 8677
Fax: (+44) (0)20 7862 8672

Submitted by: Juliette Kristensen
Date received: November 20, 2001, revised November 23, 2001


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