6. A Consciousness of Being: Burn, Baby, Burn and the Political Art of Roberto Matta

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgments x
5. Introductory Essays
6. Surrealism as Radicalism 1
7. Surrealism and Revolutionary Romanticism in May ’68 20
8. Part 1: Surrealist Solidarity
9. 1. “Down with Art, Up with Revolution”: Protesting Dada and Surrealism in 1968 30
10. 2. Ted Joans, the Other Jones: Jazz Poet, Black Power Missionary, and Surrealist Interpreter 43
11. 3. Angry, Hopeful Chaos and the Great Secret of Surrealism: Unraveling the Tangled Web of the 1970s 61
12. Part 2: Against the Liquidators
13. 4. Passionate Attraction: Fourier, Feminism, Free Love, and L’Écart absolu 76
14. 5. “To Be a Painter Means to Oppose”: Exhibiting and Politicizing Robert Rauschenberg, 1959–1965 92
15. 6. A Consciousness of Being: Burn, Baby, Burn and the Political Art of Roberto Matta 114
16. Part 3: The Right to Insubordination
17. 7. The Fantasy of a Powerful Myth: The Situationist International After Surrealism 128
18. 8. Afrosurrealism as a Counterculture of Modernity 142
19. 9. The Surrealist Adventure and the Poetry of Direct Action: Passionate Encounters Between the Chicago Surrealist Group, the Wobblies, and Earth First! 156
20. Part 4: Passional Attractions
21. 10. A Useful Bile: André Breton’s Humour Noir in 1960s America 176
22. 11. Oz Magazine and British Counterculture: A Case Study in the Reception of Surrealism 190
23. 12. Surrealism and Punk: The Case of COUM Transmissions 207
24. List of Contributors 224
25. Index 227