Renee R Hubert
Professor Emerita, French & Italian
School of Humanities
School of Humanities
Professor Emerita, Film & Media Studies
School of Humanities
School of Humanities
PH.D., Columbia University
University of California, Irvine
312 Humanities Hall
Irvine, CA 92697
312 Humanities Hall
Irvine, CA 92697
Academic Distinctions
Appointments
Research Abstract
After my first book, The Dreyfus Affair and the Novel, a historical and political study, I became interested in contemporary poetry both as a critic and a poet. I published six volumes of poetry in France, writing at the same time studies on major poets such Apollinaire, Reverdy, and Eluard. Since my appointment at UCI in 1967, I have focused on the interactions of poetry and painting, particularly in Surrealism. This new interest led to a number of articles and finally to Surrealism and the Book which focuses mainly on the collaborative efforts of artists such as Bellmer, Cornell, DalÃ, Ernst, Masson, Matta, Mirò, Tanguy and their favorite writers, past as well as present, ranging from Lewis Caroll, Kleist, Lautreamont, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud to Breton, Char, Eluard, and Péret as well as such double talents as Arp and Carrington.
Collaboration became the main focus of Magnifying Mirrors: Women, Surrealism, and Partnership, involving couples such as Carrington and Ernst, Sage and Tanguy, Toyen and Styrsky, Péret and Varo, Lee Miller and Man Ray, Kahlo and Rivera. As in this study, researched after my retirement in 1987, painting plays a far more important part than writing, I functioned as an art historian rather than as a literary scholar. Nonetheless, I read graphics much in the same analytical way I had read texts. In my most recent venture, The Cutting Edge of Reading: Artists' Books, written in collaboration with Judd D. Hubert, art plays an even greater part. We deal with a new genre practiced by avant-garde artists who often treat texts as purely visual material.
Collaboration became the main focus of Magnifying Mirrors: Women, Surrealism, and Partnership, involving couples such as Carrington and Ernst, Sage and Tanguy, Toyen and Styrsky, Péret and Varo, Lee Miller and Man Ray, Kahlo and Rivera. As in this study, researched after my retirement in 1987, painting plays a far more important part than writing, I functioned as an art historian rather than as a literary scholar. Nonetheless, I read graphics much in the same analytical way I had read texts. In my most recent venture, The Cutting Edge of Reading: Artists' Books, written in collaboration with Judd D. Hubert, art plays an even greater part. We deal with a new genre practiced by avant-garde artists who often treat texts as purely visual material.
Publications
The Dreyfus Affair and the French Novel: From Fact to Fiction, NY and Boston: Eagle Enterprises, 1951 (Doctoral dissertation)
Le Berceau d'Eve, Paris: Minuit, 1957 and 6 other volumes of poetry published in France between 1953 and 1972.
Surrealism and the Book, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988 (paperback, 1992). Magnifying Mirrors: Women, Surrealism, and Partnership, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. The Cuttig Edge of Reading: Artists' Books (in collaboration with Judd D. Hubert
More than 175 articles in American French, British, Italian, Canadian, and German journals.
Surrealism and the Book, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988 (paperback, 1992). Magnifying Mirrors: Women, Surrealism, and Partnership, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. The Cuttig Edge of Reading: Artists' Books (in collaboration with Judd D. Hubert
More than 175 articles in American French, British, Italian, Canadian, and German journals.
Grants
Guggenheim Fellow, 1965-66,
NEH Senior Fellow, 1987-88,
Panunzio Prize, 1997-8
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Last updated
10/15/2004
10/15/2004