Surrealist Sorcery
Objects, Theories and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement
Series: Transnational Surrealism;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 7 September 2023
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350227484
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 236x160x20 mm
- Weight 660 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 colour and 80 bw illus 485
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Long description:
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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
List of Figures
List of Colour Plates
1. Of Gold, Meteors, Stones and Crystals: Alchemy and the Object in the works of Andrï¿1⁄2 Breton, Salvador Dalï¿1⁄2, 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 Andrï¿1⁄2 Breton and Benjamin Pï¿1⁄2ret, 1942-1959
5. Ritual Magic in the Masks and Fetishes of Mimi Parent and Jean Benoï¿1⁄2t, 1959-1976
Conclusion
Notes
Index
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