Symbolism, Dada, Surrealisms: Selected Writing of Mary Ann Caws

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Prelude
Object Lessons and Talismans
	Objecting with Dada
	Exquisite Essentials and the Cadavre Exquis
	Beholding Nothing in Mallarmé
	Mallarmé and Duchamp: Mirror, Stair, and Gaming Table
	Poetics of the Poem-Object and Talisman: Mallarmé, Cornell, Dickinson, and Breton
	Casting a Talismanic Spell with Raymond Roussel, Méret Oppenheim, Antonin Artaud, Victor Brauner, and Gherasim Luca
	Dorothea Tanning: The Poetry of Door 84
	Elspeth Halvorsen: An Intimate Cosmos
Imaginations and Scandals
	Voice and Voyage with Robert Desnos
	Snail Time: Duchamp, Mina Loy, Pablo Echaurren, Arakawa Gins, Thom Gunn
	How to House the Surrealist Imagination?
	André Masson: A Mythology of Desire
	Cornell and Duchamp: Bubbles and Brightness in Surrealism
Photography, Poetry, and Painting
	Dora Maar: Photographer-Painter-Poet, and a Certain Baroque
	Ladies Shot and Painted: Female Embodiment in Surrealist Art
	These Photographing Women: The Scandal of Genius
	An Erotics of Representation: Fashioning the Icon with Man Ray
	Kay Sage: Rather Extraordinary All Around
Personalities and Presentations
	Malcolm de Chazal, Visionary
	Alice (Paalen) Rahon: A Surrealist Multiple and Mysterious
	Wilhelm Freddie: Againstness Wins Out
	Re-Cognizing Hedda Sterne: The Last of the Irascibles
	Jacqueline Lamba, Aube Elléouët-Breton, and Ondine: Art and Letters
	Unica Zürn: Beyond Bizarre
	Joyce Mansour in Double Time
Gathering: Some Women Poets, Performers, and Painters
	Encounter with “Surrealism Beyond Borders”
Endnotes
Notes on Sources
Acknowledgments
Photo Acknowledgments