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Surrealist Ghostliness

In this study of surrealism and ghostliness, Katharine Conley provides a new, unifying theory of surrealist art and thought based on history and the paradigm of puns and anamorphosis. In Surrealist Ghostliness, Conley discusses surrealism as a movement haunted by the experience of World War I and th...

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Autor principal: Conley, Katharine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In this study of surrealism and ghostliness, Katharine Conley provides a new, unifying theory of surrealist art and thought based on history and the paradigm of puns and anamorphosis. In Surrealist Ghostliness, Conley 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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (308 pages).
ISBN:9780803246027