Surrealist Ghostliness

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Conley, Katharine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Surrealism > Themes, motives.
ART / Criticism & Theory.
ART / History / Contemporary (1945-).
Surrealisme > Themes, motifs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Untitled; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Cinematic Whirl of Man Ray's Ghostly Objects; 2 Claude Cahun's Exploration of the Autobiographical Human; 3 The Ethnographic Automatism of Brassaï and Dalí's Involuntary Sculptures; 4 The Ghostliness in Lee Miller's Egyptian Landscapes; 5 Dorothea Tanning's Gothic Ghostliness; 6 Francesca Woodman's Ghostly Interior Maps; 7 Pierre Alechinsky's Ghostly Palimpsests; 8 Susan Hiller's Freudian Ghosts; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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