The Language Of Surrealism

Author : Peter Stockwell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137392190

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The Language of Surrealism by Peter Stockwell Pdf

The Language of Surrealism explores the revolutionary experiments in language and mind undertaken by the surrealists across Europe between the wars. Highly influential on the development of art, literary modernism, and current popular culture, surrealist style remains challenging, striking, resonant and thrilling – and the techniques by which surrealist writing achieves this are set out clearly in this book. Stockwell draws on recent work in cognitive poetics and literary linguistics to re-evaluate surrealism in its own historical setting. In the process, the book questions later critical theoretical views of language that have distorted our ideas about both surrealism and language itself. What follows is a piece of literary criticism that is fully contextualised, historically sensitive, and textually driven, and which sets out in rich and readable detail this most intriguing and disturbing literature.

Author : J. H. Matthews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015012163351

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Languages of Surrealism by J. H. Matthews Pdf

Author : Anna Balakian
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226035603

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Surrealism by Anna Balakian Pdf

First published in 1959, Surrealism remains the most readable introduction to the French surrealist poets Apollinaire, Breton, Aragon, Eluard, and Reverdy. Providing a much-needed overview of the movement, Balakian places the surrealists in the context of early twentieth-century Paris and describes their reactions to symbolist poetry, World War I, and developments in science and industry, psychology, philosophy, and painting. Her coherent history of the movement is enhanced by her firsthand knowledge of the intellectual climate in which some of these poets worked and her interviews with Reverdy and Breton. In a new introduction, Balakian discusses the influence of surrealism on contemporary poetry. This volume includes photographs of the poets and reproductions of paintings by Ernst, Dali, Tanguy, and others.

Author : Ian Higgins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literature, Modern
ISBN : OCLC:181811529

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Surrealism and Language by Ian Higgins Pdf

Author : Keith Aspley
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780810858473

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Historical Dictionary of Surrealism by Keith Aspley Pdf

Despite surrealism's celebration of the subconscious and eschewal of reason, the movement was nevertheless concerned with definitions. Andre Breton included a dictionary-style entry for surrealisme in his 1924 Manifeste du surrealisme and later explored juxtapositions of the absurd and the mundane in the 1938 Dictionnaire abrege du surrealisme. To the mountain of literature that seeks to organize the far-reaching intellectual movement, Aspley (honorary fellow, Univ. of Edinburgh) adds this handy volume that organizes the breadth of surrealism into concise entries on artists, writers, artworks, and themes. A chronology highlights events that sparked the surrealist imagination, activities of formal surrealist groups, and exhibitions. An introductory essay and extensive bibliography are included. One of the few English-language reference sources about surrealism published in the last decade, Aspley's dictionary is useful for quick access to key terms and biographies. For a book devoted to a movement characterized by arresting visual imagery, the lack of illustrations is annoying. Even Rene Passeron's 1978 Phaidon Encyclopedia of Surrealism (CH, May'79) reprints artworks in color. For a richly illustrated and comprehensive history, see Gerard Durozi's History of the Surrealist Movement (CH, Nov'02, 40-1316). Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through graduate students. Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students. Reviewed by A. H. Simmons.

Author : Stephen M. Fuller
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781617036736

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Eudora Welty and Surrealism by Stephen M. Fuller Pdf

Eudora Welty and Surrealism surveys Welty's fiction during the most productive period of her long writing life. The study shows how the 1930s witnessed surrealism's arrival in the United States largely through the products of its visual artists. Welty, a frequent traveler to New York City where the surrealists exhibited and a keen reader of magazines and newspapers that disseminated their work, absorbed and unconsciously appropriated surrealism's perspective in her writing. In fact, Welty's first solo exhibition of her photographs in 1936 took place next door to New York's premier venue for surrealist art. In a series of readings that collectively examine A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, The Wide Net and Other Stories, Delta Wedding, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories, the book reveals how surrealism profoundly shaped Welty's striking figurative literature. Yet the influence of the surrealist movement extends beyond questions of style. The study's interpretations also foreground how her writing refracted surrealism as a historical phenomena. Scattered throughout her stories are allusions to personalities allied with the movement in the United States, including figures such as Salvador Dal', Elsa Schiaparelli, Caresse Crosby, Wallace Simpson, Cecil Beaton, Helena Rubinstein, Elizabeth Arden, Joseph Cornell, and Charles Henri Ford. Individuals such as these and others whom surrealism seduced often lead unorthodox and controversial lives that made them natural targets for moral opprobrium. Eschewing such parochialism, Welty borrowed the idiom of surrealism to develop modernized depictions of the South, a literary strategy that revealed not only cultural farsightedness but great artistic daring.

Author : Natalia Brodskaya
Publisher : Parkstone International
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781683254737

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Surrealism by Natalia Brodskaya Pdf

Author : Nadia Choucha
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892813733

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Surrealism and the Occult by Nadia Choucha Pdf

"Searching for a deeper understanding of the power and influence of surrealist art, Nadia Choucha clearly confirms that many surrealists and their predecessors were steeped in magical ideas. The Theosophical involvement of Kandinsky, the visionary paintings of Salvador Dali, the alchemy of Pablo Picasso, and the shamanism of Max Ernst and Leonora Carrington all demonstrate the fundamental and dynamic impact of magic and mysticism on surrealism. Surrealist artists believed that society had much to learn from the unconditioned, spontaneous forms of art produced by spiritual mediums, children, untutored artists, and the insane. In their attempt to tap the unconscious regions of the mind, the surrealists borrowed imagery from alchemy, the Tarot, Gnosticism, Tantra, and other esoteric traditions and sought inspiration from ancient myths, 'irrational' thought, and ethnic art. Enhanced by both color and black-and-white reproductions of fine art, Choucha's account explains the intimate connections between occult and surrealist philosophies and provides an essential key to the mysteries of the surrealist movement and the forces that give it life" --Back cover.

Author : Krzysztof Fijalkowski,Michael Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317221913

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Surrealism: Key Concepts by Krzysztof Fijalkowski,Michael Richardson Pdf

Emerging from the disruption of the First World War, surrealism confronted the resulting ‘crisis of consciousness’ in a way that was arguably more profound than any other cultural movement of the time. The past few decades have seen an expansion of interest in surrealist writers, whose contribution to the history of ideas in the twentieth-century is only now being recognised. Surrealism: Key Concepts is the first book in English to present an overview of surrealism through the central ideas motivating the popular movement. An international team of contributors provide an accessible examination of the key concepts, emphasising their relevance to current debates in social and cultural theory. This book will be an invaluable guide for students studying a range of disciplines, including Philosophy, Anthropology, Sociology and Cultural Studies, and anyone who wishes to engage critically with surrealism for the first time. Contributors: Dawn Ades, Joyce Cheng, Jonathan P. Eburne, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Guy Girard, Raihan Kadri, Michael Löwy, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Michael Richardson, Donna Roberts, Bertrand Schmitt, Georges Sebbag, Raymond Spiteri, and Michael Stone-Richards.

Author : Inez Hedges
Publisher : Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X000484870

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Languages of Revolt by Inez Hedges Pdf

Author : Adonis
Publisher : Saqi
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780863567124

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Sufism and Surrealism by Adonis Pdf

At first glance Sufism and Surrealism appear to be as far removed from one another as is possible. Adonis, however, draws convincing parallels between the two, contesting that God, in the traditional sense does not exist in Surrealism or in Sufism, and that both are engaged in parallel quests for the nature of the Absolute, through 'holy madness' and the deregulation of the senses. This is a remarkable investigation into the common threads of thought that run through seemingly polarised philosophies from East and West, written by a man Edward Said referred to as 'the most eloquent spokesman and explorer of Arab modernity'.

Author : Robert Havard
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Arts, Spanish
ISBN : 1855661047

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Companion to Spanish Surrealism by Robert Havard Pdf

A comprehensive introduction to Surrealism in Spain, with focus on poetry, art, drama and film.

Author : André Breton
Publisher : Pathfinder Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Arts, Modern
ISBN : UCSD:31822025330671

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What is Surrealism? by André Breton Pdf

André Breton (1896-1966) was the founder and major theorist of the surrealist movement, one of the most vital currents of modern poetry and revolutionary thought. This compilation of Breton's writings gives a compact survey of his views and the perspectives of international surrealism as they have developed through more than half a century, and as they serve to guide the groups and individuals who, in dozens of centuries, have taken up the surrealist cause. About half of the selections are published here in English for the first time; others are reprinted from scarce, out-of-print periodicals. The editor, Franklin Rosemont, met Breton in 1966, and later that year organised the first indigenous US surrealist group. He is the author of two books of poems and the Manifesto on the Position & Direction of the Surrealist Movement in the United States (1970). He played a major role in organising the 1976 World Surrealist Exhibition in Chicago, by far the largest exhibition ever prepared by the surrealists. He lives in Chicago where he edits Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion, English-language journal of the international surrealist movement.

Author : David Hopkins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781119238225

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A Companion to Dada and Surrealism by David Hopkins Pdf

This excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism blends expert synthesis of the latest scholarship with completely new research, offering historical coverage as well as in-depth discussion of thematic areas ranging from criminality to gender. This book provides an excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism from some of the finest established and up-and-coming scholars in the field Offers historical coverage as well as in–depth discussion of thematic areas ranging from criminality to gender One of the first studies to produce global coverage of the two movements, it also includes a section dealing with the critical and cultural aftermath of Dada and Surrealism in the later twentieth century Dada and Surrealism are arguably the most popular areas of modern art, both in the academic and public spheres

Author : Michael Remy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429627194

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Surrealism in Britain by Michael Remy Pdf

This book was originally published in 1999, and is the first comprehensive study of the British surrealist movement and its achievements. Lavishly illustrated, the book provides a year-by-year narrative of the development of surrealism among artists, writers, critics and theorists in Britain. Surrealism was imported into Britain from France by pioneering little magazines. The 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London, put together by Herbert Read and Roland Penrose, marked the first attempt to introduce the concept to a wider public. Relations with the Soviet Union, the Spanish Civil War and World War Two fractured the nascent movement as writers and artists worked out their individual responses and struggled to earn a living in wartime. The book follows the story right through to the present day. Michael Remy draws on 20 years of studying British surrealism to provide this authoritative and biographically rich account, a major contribution to the understanding of the achievements of the artists and writers involved and their allegiance to this key twentieth-century movement.