Surrealist Ghostliness
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 an…
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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.
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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):UNP - Nebraska
- Place of Publication:Lincoln
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
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- Description:1 online resource (320 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780803246027, 0803246021
- oclc:ocn843201050
- LC Classification:NX456.5.S8 .C66 2013
- Dewey Decimal:709.04063
Table of Contents
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Untitled; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Cinematic Whirl of Man Ray's Ghostly Objects; 2 Claude Cahun's Exploration of the Autobiographical Human; 3 The Ethnographic Automatism of Brassaï and Dalí's Involuntary Sculptures; 4 The Ghostliness in Lee Miller's Egyptian Landscapes; 5 Dorothea Tanning's Gothic Ghostliness; 6 Francesca Woodman's Ghostly Interior Maps; 7 Pierre Alechinsky's Ghostly Palimpsests; 8 Susan Hiller's Freudian Ghosts; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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