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The Fictions of Arthur Cravan: Poetry, Boxing and Revolution

(Hardback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Fictions of Arthur Cravan: Poetry, Boxing and Revolution

Contributors:

By (Author) Dafydd Jones

ISBN:

9781526133236

Publisher:

Manchester University Press

Imprint:

Manchester University Press

Publication Date:

30th January 2019

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Dewey:

841.912

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

336

Dimensions:

Width 156mm, Height 234mm

Description

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. -- .

Author Bio

Dafydd W. Jones lectured in fine art and art history at Cardiff School of Art (19952012), 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.

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