Ebook: A companion to dada and surrealism

List of figures -- Editor -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Histories/geographies -- Dada's genesis: Zurich -- Neue Jugend: a case study in Berlin Dada -- Dada migrations: definition, dispersal, and the case of Schwitters -- New York dada: from end to beginning -- Nothing, ventured: Paris dada into surrealism -- Surrealism and the question of politics, 1925-1939 -- "Other" surrealisms: center and periphery in international perspective -- Dada and surrealism in Japan -- Dada and surrealism in Central and Eastern Europe -- Surrealism in Latin America -- Themes and interpretations -- Dissemination: the dada and surrealist journals -- Artists into curators: dada and surrealist exhibition practices -- Dada and surrealist poetics -- Chance and automatism: genealogies of the dissociative in dada and surrealism -- Crime/insurrection -- Re-enchantment: surrealist discourses of childhood, hermeticism, and the outmoded -- Surrealism and natural history: nature and the marvelous in Breton and Caillois -- The surrealist collection: ghosts in the laboratory -- The ethnographic turn -- Desire bound: violence, body, machine -- Equivocal gender: dada/surrealism and sexual politics between the wars;This excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism blends expert synthesis of the latest scholarship with completely new research, offering historical coverage as well as in-depth discussion of thematic areas ranging from criminality to gender.