Surrealist ghostliness

Surrealist ghostliness / Katharine Conley.

This book provides a unifying theory of surrealist art and thought based on history and the paradigm of puns and anamorphosis. The author 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Conley, Katharine, 1956-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Literature.
Subjects:
Surrealism > Themes, motives.
ART > History > General.
ART > Criticism & Theory.
Surrealism > Themes, motives
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Table of Contents:
  • The Cinematic Whirl of Man Ray's Ghostly Objects
  • Claude Cahun's Exploration of the Autobiographical Human
  • The Ethnographic Automatism of Brassaï and Dalí's Involuntary Sculptures
  • The Ghostliness in Lee Miller's Egyptian Landscapes
  • Dorothea Tanning's Gothic Ghostliness
  • Francesca Woodman's Ghostly Interior Maps
  • Pierre Alechinsky's Ghostly Palimpsests
  • Susan Hiller's Freudian Ghosts.

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