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Re-membering surrealism in Charles Henri Ford’s Poem posters (1964–5)

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posted on 2023-06-09, 01:52 authored by Joanna PawlikJoanna Pawlik
This article explores Charles Henri Ford’s Poem Posters series of 1964–5 and the ‘Having Wonderful Time Wish You Were Here’: Postcards to Charles Henri Ford exhibition at the Iolas Gallery (New York, 1976). Ford’s editorship of View magazine (1940–7) is well known in scholarship on surrealism’s reception in America, but less frequently explored are the ways in which his later artistic and curatorial practice self-consciously continued the publication’s mission of promoting a queer and partisan identity for the movement. Ford does more than simply enable surrealism to resonate further than its epicentre. He intervenes at the level of historiography, an intervention, this article argues, which is implicated in his efforts to rethink the movement’s sexual politics. Drawing on Elizabeth Freeman’s scholarship on queer temporalities, this article considers how Ford’s anachronistic recourse to surrealism in the 1940s and again in the 1960s, long after the movement had passed its expiry date, aligns linear narratives of avant-gardism with a recalculation of its customary heteronormativity.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

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Art History

ISSN

0141-6790

Publisher

Wiley

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1

Volume

41

Page range

154-191

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  • Art History Publications

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  • Yes

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2016-06-24

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2019-05-27

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-06-23

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