担当教員：メアリー ナイトン
講義題目：Surrealism Reconsidered
In this course, we will take up surrealism as a global arts movement whose putative origins are in 1920s Paris with the first 1924 Surrealism Manifesto. The movement would, over time, include such major figures as Breton, Aragon, Soupault, Artaud, Man Ray, Magritte Dali, and many others in and outside France, in both literature and the visual and performing arts. In Japan, Nishiwaki Junzaburo, Takiguchi Shuzo, and Kitasono Katsue were representative surrealists. Despite a loss of momentum and some of its original shock value, surrealism continued as an identifiable movement during and after WWⅡ, in Japan as well as abroad. From Negritude writers to the postwar Wani group in Japan and wide-flung women artists such as Dorothea Tanning, Leonor Fini, Joyce Mansour, Leonora Carrington, and Frida Kahlo, surrealism moved in new directions. We will read and look at works by such artists, see surrealist films, and study the historical and aesthetic motivations of numerous artists in different contexts. Critics such as Iwaya Kunio, Ooka Makoto, Iijima Koichi, Tsuruoka Yoshihisa, John Solt, and Miryam Sas will prove indispensable in this regard.
The course will be conducted in English mostly, but readings will be in English and Japanese (French optional at times). Japanese and English reading ability required.