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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, and clouded in perpetuated errors and drifting untruths. The ether which so much of what we 'know' occupies now compromises whatever attempt we might make at establishing significance for the creative output of this freeloading individual, and, deliberately to resist dismissal from the canon, The fictions of Arthur Cravan processes philosophical positions into a practical recovery designed to yield sense from apparent nonsense. Ranging nineteenth-century Nietzsche to twentieth-century Deleuze, this study allows centrality for thought on subjectivity, metaphor, representation and multiplicity, together in assembly of schizobiography. Recovering the many fictions and moving towards a cultural claim for Cravan as historical singularity, fresh readings and new approaches are here presented. From previously undocumented correspondence and earliest literary forays, a revised reading of Cravan's first published work delivers a manifesto of simulation; the final contributors to his Paris review Maintenant are revealed as satirical impostures for the Delaunays; the scandalous European specimen in New York is reconfigured as a Duchampian readymade, emerging through idle dissipation as author by proxy of the iconic mustachioed Mona Lisa; for the first time, a full elegiac reading is given of Picabia's experimental film Entr'acte; and the book concludes with the appropriated poet-boxer's casting off into what would become the Surrealist legacy. The absent Cravan finally presented is a vibrant and unceasing dispersal of names and fictions, whereby his disappearance in 1918 now concludes as a multiple death that can only ever be expressed in the infinitive.
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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, and clouded in perpetuated errors and drifting untruths. The ether which so much of what we 'know' occupies now compromises whatever attempt we might make at establishing significance for the creative output of this freeloading individual, and, deliberately to resist dismissal from the canon, The fictions of Arthur Cravan processes philosophical positions into a practical recovery designed to yield sense from apparent nonsense. Ranging nineteenth-century Nietzsche to twentieth-century Deleuze, this study allows centrality for thought on subjectivity, metaphor, representation and multiplicity, together in assembly of schizobiography. Recovering the many fictions and moving towards a cultural claim for Cravan as historical singularity, fresh readings and new approaches are here presented. From previously undocumented correspondence and earliest literary forays, a revised reading of Cravan's first published work delivers a manifesto of simulation; the final contributors to his Paris review Maintenant are revealed as satirical impostures for the Delaunays; the scandalous European specimen in New York is reconfigured as a Duchampian readymade, emerging through idle dissipation as author by proxy of the iconic mustachioed Mona Lisa; for the first time, a full elegiac reading is given of Picabia's experimental film Entr'acte; and the book concludes with the appropriated poet-boxer's casting off into what would become the Surrealist legacy. The absent Cravan finally presented is a vibrant and unceasing dispersal of names and fictions, whereby his disappearance in 1918 now concludes as a multiple death that can only ever be expressed in the infinitive.
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date February 2019
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781526133236 / 1526133237
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- ReadershipGeneral/trade
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions234 X 156 mm
- Reference Code11311
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