Surrealism and Animation - Transnational Connections, 1920-Present

From Betty Boop to Donald Duck, Tex Avery to Walt Disney, collage animation to Japanese anime, and Claymation to 3D animation, Surrealism and Animation is the first book to identify correspondences between the art of animation and the International Surrealist Movement. Sharing a deep commitment to a reanimation of everyday life, surrealist artists and animators sought a marvellous, living form of art. Cartoons and trick films by pioneers such as Georges Melies were influential for Salvador Dali and Andre Breton, among others; many other surrealists and their associates such as Max Ernst, Joseph Cornell, Hans Richter, Len Lye, Roland Topor, Jan Svankmajer, and Lawrence Jordan turned to animated cinema and theories of animacy to express their surrealist visions. Surrealism and Animation is the first book devoted to surrealism''s vivid engagement with the history, theory, and medium of animation on a transnational basis. Featuring seventeen essays by leading and emerging scholars, as well as interviews with contemporary artists Penny Slinger and Jacolby Satterwhite, this collection investigates a shimmering range of topics on animated surrealism, including black humour, queer subjectivities, ecofeminism, Black surrealisms, and more.

Product details

• Authors: Abigail Susik
• Assisted by: Abigail Susik (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.07.2025
• EAN: 9781350475915
• ISBN: 978-1-350-47591-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 174 mm x 246 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Transnational Surrealism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Application software; 20th Century, ART / History / General, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Animated, Surrealism, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, Animated films and animation, Art & Design Styles: Surrealism & Dada, Digital Animation