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SUMMARY: Joyce Cheng – Surrealism and the Ethnography of the Subject
DESCRIPTION: A lecture by Joyce Cheng as part of the Joan Carlisle-Irving L
 ecture Series 
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p><a href="https://ahva.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-c
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 jpg"><img class="alignnone wp-image-32889" src="https://ahva.cms.arts.ubc.c
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 -contrast="auto">A lecture by Joyce Cheng as part of the </span><span data-
 contrast="auto">Joan Carlisle-Irving Lecture Series</span><span data-ccp-pr
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 ,"335559740":259}"> </span></p><p><span data-contrast="auto">5:30 p.m.\, We
 dnesday\, November 16\, 2022</span><br /><span data-contrast="auto">Room 10
 2\, Frederic Lasserre Building</span><br /><span data-contrast="auto">6333 
 Memorial Road\, University of British Columbia </span><br /><span data-cont
 rast="auto">ahva.ubc.ca </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0\,"33555
 9739":160\,"335559740":259}"> </span></p><p><span data-contrast="auto">This
  event is free and open to the public. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"20134
 1983":0\,"335559739":160\,"335559740":259}"> </span></p><p><span data-contr
 ast="none">Arguably the most multi-faceted of the global avant-garde moveme
 nts of the interwar period\, surrealism has long been recognized to encompa
 ss an ethnographic dimension. The anthropologist James Clifford has gone as
  far as coining the term "ethnographic surrealism" to describe the subversi
 ve magazine of arts and culture edited by Georges Bataille\, </span><i><spa
 n data-contrast="none">Documents</span></i><span data-contrast="none">\, wh
 ich juxtaposes ethnographic (including archaeological) materials with those
  of contemporary art and popular culture. Yet\, the ethnographic dimension 
 of surrealism also goes beyond this rhetorical use of professional ethnolog
 y by Bataille’s so-called dissident group\, and should be considered more b
 roadly to include psychiatry\, the profession in which surrealism's leading
  poet André Breton was initially trained\, and the unofficial documentation
  of urban habits such as graffiti and fashion in the journal </span><i><spa
 n data-contrast="none">Minotaure</span></i><span data-contrast="none">. Thi
 s talk will therefore argue that an always implicitly ethnographic surreali
 sm was mainly concerned with documenting and making visible non-sovereign a
 nd marginalized forms and practices of subjectivity through aesthetic forms
 \, which bourgeois modernity had tended to pathologize or denigrate.</span>
 <span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0\,"335559739":160\,"335559740":259}"> <
 /span></p><p><b><span data-contrast="none">Joyce S. Cheng</span></b><span d
 ata-contrast="none"> is Associate Professor of Art History at the Universit
 y of Oregon where she teaches courses in modernist visual arts\, poetics\, 
 aesthetic theories\, and the cultural and intellectual history of the inter
 war period. She has published book chapters and articles on topics such as 
 symbolism\, dada\, surrealism and the art theories of Carl Einstein\, which
  have appeared in </span><i><span data-contrast="none">Modernism/modernity<
 /span></i><span data-contrast="none"> and </span><i><span data-contrast="no
 ne">Res</span></i><span data-contrast="none">. Principally a scholar of sur
 realism\, she is currently finishing a book entitled </span><i><span data-c
 ontrast="none">The Persistence of Masks: Surrealism and the Ethnography of 
 the Subject</span></i><span data-contrast="none">. Reflecting her interest 
 in methodological issues in the studies of art and cultural forms\, she is 
 also at work on a new project that considers the Japanese popular icon Hell
 o Kitty from the perspective of anthropological aesthetics.</span><span dat
 a-ccp-props="{"201341983":0\,"335551550":0\,"335551620":0\,"335559739":160\
 ,"335559740":259}"> </span></p><p><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0\,"33
 5551550":0\,"335551620":0\,"335559739":160\,"335559740":259}"> </span></p><
 p><span data-contrast="none">Image: Parisian graffiti photographed by Brass
 aï. In </span><i><span data-contrast="none">Minotaure</span></i><span data-
 contrast="none">\, no. 3-4\, 1933\, p. 7.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201
 341983":0\,"335559739":160\,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
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