Will Atkin

Surrealist Sorcery (eBook, ePUB)

Objects, Theories and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Often regarded as an artistic movement of interwar Paris, Surrealism comprised an international community of artists, writers, and intellectuals who have aspired to change the conditions of life itself over the course of the past century. Consisting of a wide range of dedicated case studies from the 1920s to the 1970s, this book highlights the international dimensions of the Surrealist Movement, and the radical chains of thought that linked its followers across the globe: from France to Romania, and from Canada to the former Czechoslovakia.

From very early on, the surrealists approached magic as a means of bypassing, discrediting, and combatting rationalism, capitalism, and other institutionalized systems and values that they saw to be constraining influences upon modern life. Surrealist Sorcery maps out how this interest in magic developed into a major area of surrealist research that led not only to theoretical but also practical explorations of the subject. Taking an international perspective, Atkin surveys this important quality of the movement and how it's remained an important element in the surrealist project and its ongoing legacy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350227507
• Artikelnr.: 68159121

Autorenporträt

Will Atkin is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Art History at the University of Nottingham, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction List of Figures List of Colour Plates 1. Of Gold
Meteors
Stones and Crystals: Alchemy and the Object in the works of André Breton
Salvador Dalí
and Ithell Colquhoun
1929-1949 2. Satanic Sorcery: Black Magic
Demons and Vampires in the Objects and Writings of Gherasim Luca
1939-1945 3. Cosmic Magic: Talismans and Ciphers in the Objects of Victor Brauner
1940-1946 4. Primordial Myth and Magic in the Writings of André Breton and Benjamin Péret
1942-1959 5. Ritual Magic in the Masks and Fetishes of Mimi Parent and Jean Benoît
1959-1976 Conclusion Notes Index