The Great Prehistoric Art Swindle: André Breton and Palaeolithic Cave Painting

Paragraph ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 364-378
Author(s):  
Douglas Smith
Keyword(s):  
Wall Painting ◽  
Andre Breton ◽  
Civilizing Mission ◽  
André Breton ◽  
Prehistoric Art ◽  
Cast Doubt ◽  
Post War ◽  
French National Identity ◽  
Cave Painting ◽  
Insight Into

At Pech Merle in 1952, André Breton provoked a controversial incident by damaging a Palaeolithic wall painting that he suspected to be a fake. This episode provides an insight into the contested status of prehistoric sites in post-war France and the theoretical and ideological implications of their cultural mobilization. Such sites allowed for a disavowal of wartime trauma and supported the reaffirmation of French national identity and its civilizing mission by locating the birthplace of human culture on French soil. Yet their extreme age also threw into relief the relative fragility of the recently invented nation-state. Breton's vandalism cast doubt on the models of cultural progress and pre-eminence that sought to instrumentalize prehistoric art but failed to appreciate the subversiveness of its ‘deep’ history. Ironically, however, Breton's scepticism ultimately enhanced the subversive dimension of archaeology by allowing it to demonstrate the authenticity and age of cave art.

Turkish Muslims in a German city: Entrepreneurial and residential self-determination

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Sarah Hackett
Keyword(s):  
Residential Patterns ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
German City ◽  
Post War ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
The City ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Term Objective

Drawing upon a collection of oral history interviews, this paper offers an insight into entrepreneurial and residential patterns and behaviour amongst Turkish Muslims in the German city of Bremen. The academic literature has traditionally argued that Turkish migrants in Germany have been pushed into self-employment, low-quality housing and segregated neighbourhoods as a result of discrimination, and poor employment and housing opportunities. Yet the interviews reveal the extent to which Bremen’s Turkish Muslims’ performances and experiences have overwhelmingly been the consequences of personal choices and ambitions. For many of the city’s Turkish Muslim entrepreneurs, self-employment had been a long-term objective, and they have succeeded in establishing and running their businesses in the manner they choose with regards to location and clientele, for example. Similarly, interviewees stressed the way in which they were able to shape their housing experiences by opting which districts of the city to live in and by purchasing property. On the whole, they perceive their entrepreneurial and residential practices as both consequences and mediums of success, integration and a loyalty to the city of Bremen. The findings are contextualised within the wider debate regarding the long-term legacy of Germany’s post-war guest-worker system and its position as a “country of immigration”.

Nadja: um diálogo entre a psicanálise e o surrealismo

2020 ◽  
pp. 14-28
Author(s):  
Ramaiana Freire Cardinali ◽  
Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker
Keyword(s):  
Andre Breton ◽  
André Breton

Este artigo traz uma leitura interdisciplinar de Nadja, romance escrito por André Breton em 1928, a partir das concepções de realidade propostas pelos surrealistas e pela psicanálise. No surrealismo, através da critica ao realismo, surge o conceito de surreal, com o qual artistas passaram a se exprimir em produções artísticas e em uma conduta particular de vida no pós-guerra. Na psicanálise, Freud foi levado a superar a dicotomia entre interno/externo, assim como entre normal/patológico, implicando, com isso, uma nova concepção de realidade, que posteriormente foi reformulada por Lacan sob o conceito de real. Esta leitura traz como decorrência a denúncia ao conformismo e a superação das falsas dicotomias, ensejando, tanto com a psicanálise quanto com o surrealismo, uma transformação na práxis do sujeito.

Poems of Andre Breton, a Bilingual Anthology

1984 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Eric H. Deudon ◽  
Andre Breton ◽  
Jean-Pierre Cauvin ◽  
Mary Ann Caws
Keyword(s):  
Andre Breton ◽  
André Breton

Andre Breton: Magus of Surrealism

1974 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 186
Author(s):  
K. R. Aspley ◽  
Anna Balakian
Keyword(s):  
Andre Breton ◽  
André Breton

scholarly journals Central European Border Settlements and Interwar Ireland: a Transnational Study of the North- Eastern Boundary Bureau and the Boundary Commission

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lili Zách
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
Central European ◽  
The North ◽  
Eastern Boundary ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Post War ◽  
Transnational Study ◽  
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ABSTRACTIn the aftermath of the Great War, the birth of new independent small states in East-Central Europe was closely followed in Irish nationalist circles due to the possibility of Partition in Ireland. Newspaper editorials, journal articles and diplomatic accounts illustrate that post-war Ireland had an open attitude toward the settlement of borders on the Continent as the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was similarly controversial. This paper aims to investigate how contemporary Irish commentators perceived the question of boundary settlements in Central Europe in order to provide an insight into the transformation of political space in both Ireland and Central Europe. After providing a brief background to the Irish boundary question, this paper touches upon the most important points in historiography with regard to border settlements in the post-World War I era.. It also discusses Irish Partition history in detail, concentrating on the North-Eastern Boundary Bureau (NEBB) and the Boundary Commission, and the importance of Central European precedents in their work. Moreover, this paper also proposes to provide an insight into the Irish interest in the minority problem in European borderland regions after 1925 in order to illustrate the outward-looking attitude to Irish nationalists, even in relation to borders and minorities.

scholarly journals Uma leitura comparada das artes selvagens

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-43
Author(s):  
Sylvie André
Keyword(s):  
Andre Breton ◽  
André Breton

Durante a segunda guerra mundial, Claude Lévi-Strauss e André Breton se encontraram no navio que os conduzia a Nova York. Viviam a mesma experiência de intelectuais expatriados. Tristes Trópicos (1955) pode ser lido como o resultado de trocas com Breton e outros escritores, em que a forma e a contribuição literárias são onipresentes afin de avaliar a originalidade e as contribuições do próprio texto antropológico. Nesta obra, Lévi-Strauss se interroga especificamente sobre todas as formas de relato do “Além” e sobre as condições do conhecimento científico das sociedades humanas. A partir de seus primeiros artigos até Antropologia estrutural (1958), Lévi-Strauss desenvolve algumas definições interessantes da atividade criadora em relação aos mitos. Especularmente, pode-se notar a importância do encontro do etnólogo com André Breton e a visão da arte que ele estava desenvolvendo: um tipo de arte cuja dimensão social estava afirmada com maior intensidade. Estando em contato com a etnologia e Claude Lévi-Strauss, André Breton concebe e desenvolve sua necessidade de criação de um mito contemporâneo que denominará ‘os grandes transparentes’. Em 1955 o etnólogo propõe um questionário para a preparação de L’Art magique. Por meio da correspondência entre o poeta e o etnólogo, podemos apreciar as discussões e o que alimentou suas concepções pessoais.

scholarly journals REVIEW: 'Embedded' with the invaded Iraqi people

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 220-224
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
The People ◽  
Chain Of Command ◽  
Post War ◽  
Policy Failures ◽  
Insight Into

Wilson's Long drive Through A Short War is a personal account of their time in Iraq during the invasion and a subsequent post-war visit to the country to see the fate of the people he had met.  Hersh's Chain of Command provides many of the missing links to those seeking greater insight into the wider struggle of Iraq's civil war unleashed by the failure of US post-invasion policy, even if this is not officially admitted. His 'muckracking' investigations concentrate on the policy failures, corruptions and abuses of power. 

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