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Surrealist ghostliness /
This book provides a unifying theory of surrealist art and thought based on history and the paradigm of puns and anamorphosis. The author discusses surrealism as a movement haunted by the experience of World War I and the repressed ghost of spiritualism. From the perspective of surrealist automatism...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book provides a unifying theory of surrealist art and thought based on history and the paradigm of puns and anamorphosis. The author discusses surrealism as a movement haunted by the experience of World War I and the repressed ghost of spiritualism. From the perspective of surrealist automatism, this double haunting produced a unifying paradigm of textual and visual puns that both pervades surrealist thought and art and commemorates the surrealists' response to the Freudian unconscious. Extending the gothic imagination inherited from the eighteenth century, the surrealists inaugurated the psychological century with an exploration of ghostliness through doubles, puns, and anamorphosis, revealing through visual activation the underlying coexistence of realities as opposed as life and death. This book explores examples of surrealist ghostliness in film, photography, painting, sculpture, and installation art from the 1920s through the 1990s by artists from Europe and North America from the center to the periphery of the surrealist movement. Works by Man Ray, Claude Cahun, Brassaï and Salvador Dali, as well as Lee Miller, Dorothea Tanning, Francesca Woodman, Pierre Alechinsky, and Susan Hiller, illuminate the surrealist ghostliness that pervades the twentieth-century arts and compellingly unifies the century's most influential (yet disparate) avant-garde movement. -- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780803246027 0803246021 1299535283 9781299535282 0803226594 9780803226593 1496211529 9781496211521 |