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Surrealism and the Gothic

Author : Neil Matheson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351686457

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Surrealism and the Gothic is the first book-length analysis of the role played by the gothic in both the initial emergence of surrealism and at key moments in its subsequent development as an art and literary movement. The book argues the strong and sustained influence, not only of the classic gothic novel itself – Ann Radcliffe, Charles Maturin, Matthew Lewis, etc. – but also the determinative impact of closely related phenomena, as with the influence of mediumism, alchemy and magic. The book also traces the later development of the gothic novel, as with Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and its mutation into such works of popular fiction as the Fantômas series of Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre, enthusiastically taken up by writers such as Apollinaire and subsequently feeding into the development of surrealism. More broadly, the book considers a range of motifs strongly associated with gothic writing, as with insanity, incarceration and the ‘accursed outsider’, explored in relation to the personal experience and electroshock treatment of Antonin Artaud. A recurring motif of the analysis is that of the gothic castle, developed in the writings of André Breton, Artaud, Sade, Julien Gracq and other writers, as well as in the work of visual artists such as Magritte.

A Self-made Surrealist

Author : Caroline Blinder
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571131337

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A new evaluation of a writer who was the talk of the literary world in the early days of the sexual revolution. Since the publication of Tropic of Cancer in 1934, Henry Miller has been the target of critics from all sides. A Self-Made Surrealist sets out to provide a view of Miller different from both earlier vindications of him as sexual liberator and prophet and more contemporary feminist critiques of him as pornographer and male chauvinist. In this re-evaluation of Miller's role as a radical writer, Blinder considers not only notions of obscenity and sexuality, but also the emergence of psychoanalysis, surrealism, automatic writing, and the aesthetics of fascism, as they illuminate Miller's more general 20th-century concerns with politics and mass psychology in relation to art. Blinder also considers the effect on Miller of the theoretical works of Georges Bataille and André Breton, among others, in order to define and explore the social, philosophical, and political contexts of the period. By examining the enormous impetus Miller got from being in the midst of French culture and its debate, A Self-Made Surrealist shows that Miller was indeed a seminal writer of the period rather than simply an isolated male chauvinist.

Women and Gothic

Author : Maria Purves
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443857932

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This small collection of essays explores women’s relationship with the gothic: a relationship which has, since its eighteenth-century beginnings, always been complex. These essays demonstrate some of the scope and diversity of that relationship, and much of its intensity: the ingenuity and genius employed, the anguish experienced and the risks taken, in its evolution. Genuinely representative of gothic’s flexibility and presence in everything from novels to architecture, from surrealist art to hypertext fiction, this volume brings new primary sources and topics to the reader’s attention, and will be of interest to anyone who wants to expand and challenge their understanding of how and why women engage with the gothic.

Visualizing Theory

Author : Lucien Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136651335

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Visualizing Theory is a lavishly illustrated collection of provocative essays, occasional pieces, and dialogues that first appeared in Visual Anthropology Review between 1990 and 1994. It contains contributions from anthropologists, from cultural, literary and film critics and from image makers themselves. Reclaiming visual anthropology as a space for the critical representation of visual culture from the naive realist and exoticist inclinations that have beleaguered practitioners' efforts to date, Visualizing Theory is a major intervention into this growing field.

Surrealist Ghostliness

Author : Katharine Conley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781496211521

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Surrealist Ghostliness by Katharine Conley Pdf

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 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. Surrealist Ghostliness 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 Dalí, 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.

The Dedalus Book of Surrealism: The myth of the world

Author : Michael Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017077640

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The Dedalus Book of Surrealism: The myth of the world by Michael Richardson Pdf

Collection of surrealist stories by authors from seventeen different countries.

Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts

Author : David Punter
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Art, Gothic
ISBN : 9781474432375

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Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts by David Punter Pdf

The Gothic is a contested and complicated phenomenon, extending over many centuries and across all the arts. In The Edinburgh Companion to the Gothic and the Arts, the range of essays run from medieval architecture and design to contemporary gaming and internet fiction; from classical painting to the modern novel; from ballet and dance to contemporary Goth music. The contributors include many of the best-known critics of the Gothic (e.g., Hogle, Punter, Spooner, Bruhm) as well as newer names such as Kirk and Round. The editor has put all these contributors in touch with each other in the preparation of their essays in order to ensure the maximum benefit to the reader by producing a well-integrated book which will prove much more than a collection of disparate essays, but rather a distinctive contribution to a field.

Lowbrow Art

Author : Flame Tree Publishing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 178361322X

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Lowbrow Art by Flame Tree Publishing Pdf

Lowbrow Art is Pop Surrealism at its best: a stunning blast of the weird and wonderful, with exaggerated shapes and doleful eyes, stripy stockings mixed with ornate decor, all served with lashings of style and humour. Featuring artworks by such talented artists as Jasmine Becket-Griffith, Dadara and Scott Rohlfs, this incredible new book in the Gothic Dreams series is a real feast for the eyes!

A History of the Surrealist Novel

Author : Anna Watz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009084925

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A History of the Surrealist Novel by Anna Watz Pdf

A History of the Surrealist Novel offers a rich, long, and elastic historiography of the surrealist novel, taking into consideration an abundance of texts previously left out of critical accounts. Its twenty thematically organized chapters examine surrealist prose texts written in French, English, Spanish, German, Greek, and Japanese, from the emergence of the surrealist movement in the 1920s and 1930s, through the post-war and postmodern periods, and up to the contemporary moment. This approach extends received narratives regarding surrealism's geographical locations and considers its transnational movement and modes of circulation. Moreover, it challenges critical biases that have defined surrealism in predominantly masculine terms, and which tie the movement to the interwar or early post-war years. This book will appeal both to scholars and students of surrealism and its legacies, modernist literature, and the history of the novel.

Historical Dictionary of Surrealism

Author : Will Atkin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781538133439

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Historical Dictionary of Surrealism by Will Atkin Pdf

The Surrealist Movement is an international intellectual movement that has led a sustained questioning of the basis of human experience under twentieth- and twenty-first century modernity since its founding in the early 1920s. Influenced by the psychoanalytical teachings of Sigmund Freud, Surrealism emerged among the generation that had witnessed the insanity and horror of the First World War, and was conceived of as a framework for investigating the little-understood phenomena of dreams and the unconscious. In these territories the surrealists recognized an alternative axis of human experience that did not align with the rational, workaday rhythms of modern life, and which instead revealed the extent to which individual subjectivity had been constrained by post-Enlightenment rationalism and by the economic forces governing the post-industrial world. Against these trends, the Surrealist Movement has sought to re-evaluate the foundations of modern society and reassert the primacy of the imagination for almost a century to-date. This book offers focused introductions to numerous writers, poets, artists, filmmakers, precursors, groups, movements, events, concepts, cultures, nations and publications connected to Surrealism, providing orientation for students and casual readers alike. Historical Dictionary of Surrealism, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 200 cross-referenced entries on the Surrealist Movement’s engagement with the realms of politics, philosophy, science, poetry, art and cinema, and charts the international surrealist community’s diverse explorations of specific thematic territories such as magic, occultism, mythology, eroticism and gothicism. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about surrealism.

A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm

Author : Catriona McAra
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781315390574

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A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm by Catriona McAra Pdf

Bobbing in the underworld -- When the artist's away ... -- Tanning's astonishing gaze -- Conclusion: An infinite Abyss? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Books and Articles -- Reviews -- Fiction and poetry -- Film -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 -- Note -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Index

Peter De Vries and Surrealism

Author : Dan Campion
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838753116

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Peter De Vries and Surrealism by Dan Campion Pdf

De Vries's style and narrative technique are often surrealistic, and he mentions surrealism and surrealists in all but two of his twenty-six books. Yet, in fifty years of commentary on De Vries, scarcely any notice has been taken of these surrealist elements.

Fashion and Surrealism

Author : Richard Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Costume design
ISBN : 0500275505

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Fashion and Surrealism by Richard Martin Pdf

Here are some of the most extravagant and ingenious images ever created in art and in haute couture- fruits of the love affair between fashion and Surrealism. Their relationship began in the Paris of the 1920s when Surrealist artists experimented not only with the fine arts but with photography, film and costume design.

Sacred Surrealism, Dissidence and International Avant-Garde Prose

Author : Vivienne Brough-Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317060161

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Sacred Surrealism, Dissidence and International Avant-Garde Prose by Vivienne Brough-Evans Pdf

Vivienne Brough-Evans proposes a compelling new way of reevaluating aspects of international surrealism by means of the category of divin fou, and consequently deploys theories of sacred ecstasy as developed by the Collège de Sociologie (1937–39) as a critical tool in shedding new light on the literary oeuvre of non-French writers who worked both within and against a surrealist framework. The minor surrealist genre of prose literature is considered herein, rather than surrealism's mainstay, poetry, with the intention of fracturing preconceptions regarding the medium of surrealist expression. The aim is to explore whether International surrealism can begin to be more fully explained by an occluded strain of 'dissident' surrealist thought that searches outside the self through the affects of ekstasis. Bretonian surrealism is widely discussed in the field of surrealist studies, and there is a need to consider what is left out of surrealist practice when analysed through this Bretonian lens. The Collège de Sociologie and Georges Bataille's theories provide a model of such elements of 'dissident' surrealism, which is used to analyse surrealist or surrealist influenced prose by Alejo Carpentier, Leonora Carrington and Gellu Naum respectively representing postcolonial, feminist and Balkan locutions. The Collège and Bataille's 'dissident' surrealism diverges significantly from the concerns and approach towards the subject explored by surrealism. Using the concept of ekstasis to organise Bataille's theoretical ideas of excess and 'inner experience' and the Collège's thoughts on the sacred it is possible to propose a new way of reading types of International surrealist literature, many of which do not come to the forefront of the surrealist literary oeuvre.

Return to Twin Peaks

Author : Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock,Catherine Spooner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137556950

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Return to Twin Peaks by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock,Catherine Spooner Pdf

Return to Twin Peaks offers new critical considerations and approaches to the Twin Peaks series, as well as reflections on its significance and legacy. With texts that analyze the ways in which readers and viewers endow texts with meaning in light of historically situated and culturally shared emphases and interpretive strategies, this volume showcases the ways in which new theoretical paradigms can reinvigorate and enrich understanding of what Twin Peaks was and what it has become since it went off the air in 1991.