"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"--
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.
Recenzijas
A work of extreme erudition, Atkins book and its transnational framework contributes powerfully to long-standing debates on modernist primitivism and ethnographic forms of Surrealism. Slowly but surely, an underground Surrealism emerges, drawing the reader especially into the catastrophic war years and their aftermath. * George Baker, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, UCLA, USA * Illuminating a compelling archive spanning the 1920s through to the 1970s, and covering a wide range of international sources, this book demonstrates that surrealist art had a significant investment in magical practices as a means of reanimating and redeeming certain aspects of modern existence. * Abigail Susik, author of Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work (2021), and Associate Professor of Art History, Willamette University, USA *
Papildus informācija
Offers summative coverage of the history of magical practices within the international Surrealist Movement, spanning from its inception in 1924 to the 21st century.
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 Dalķ, 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 Benoīt,
1959-1976
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Will Atkin is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Art History at the University of Nottingham, UK
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