Surrealism and the Occult: Occultism and Western Esotericism in the Work and Movement of André Breton
Autor Tessel M. Bauduinen Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 aug 2014
This book offers a new perspective on a long-debated issue: the role of the occult in surrealism, in particular under the leadership of French writer André Breton. Based on thorough source analysis, this study details how our understanding of occultism and esotericism, as well as of their function in Bretonian surrealism, changed significantly over time from the early 1920s to the late 1950s.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789089646361
ISBN-10: 9089646361
Pagini: 278
Ilustrații: 36 color plates, 14 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Amsterdam University Press
Colecția Amsterdam University Press
ISBN-10: 9089646361
Pagini: 278
Ilustrații: 36 color plates, 14 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Amsterdam University Press
Colecția Amsterdam University Press
Notă biografică
Tessel M. Bauduin is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Department of Cultural Studies of the Faculty of Arts at Radboud University, Nijmegen, in the Netherlands.
Cuprins
Introduction: The Occultation of Surrealism
Prelude
Staking out positions
Occult traces in romantic and symbolist precursors
Further sources
Some final comments on Bretonian Surrealism’s occult sources
Occultism and brief outline of this study
1. The Time of Slumbers: Psychic automatism and surrealist research
Introduction
Surrealism, psychiatry, automatism
The sleeping sessions: Lucid dreaming
The sleeping sessions: The psychical research-connection
Surrealist psychical research
(Auto-)suggestion and the conflation of subject and object
Simulation and the reality of thought
2. The Period of Reason: Mediums and seers
Introduction: Nadja
Mad, mediumistic, clairvoyant
Surrealist painting and the medium-painters
I say one must be a seer
Seeing Nadja
Surrealist vision
Schaulust, psychic voyeurism, or woman as seen
Visionary alchemy
The Automatic Message: The state of grace
3. The ‘Golden Age’ of the omnipotent mind
Introduction
To conceal, to distinguish, to occult
Agrippa, Flamel and Abraham the Jew
Bringing about the ‘occultation’
Prophecies, premonitions, predictions – surrealist correspondences
Correspondences: Objective chance
Magical thinking and Surrealism as myth
Paranoia, analogy, the uncanny
4. Magic in exile
Occultism in Surrealism on the eve of the Second World War
The Marseille Game
Magus of love: Novalis
In exile abroad: The artist as magician
Surrealist myth ‒ primitives, magicians, fools
Arcanum 17: Magical woman
In conclusion and the Ode to Fourier
5. Arcanum 1947: Poetry, liberty, love
Introduction
The exhibition: First stage
Second and third stage
The beginning of the end? Or initiation into… liberty
Going backwards
L’Art magique ‒ magic art
One in the other: Analogical metaphors and other games
The language of birds and phonetic cabala: Alchemy’s prime
matter
Conclusion
Notes
List of plates
Bibliography
Primary sources
Secondary sources
Film
Index of names
Prelude
Staking out positions
Occult traces in romantic and symbolist precursors
Further sources
Some final comments on Bretonian Surrealism’s occult sources
Occultism and brief outline of this study
1. The Time of Slumbers: Psychic automatism and surrealist research
Introduction
Surrealism, psychiatry, automatism
The sleeping sessions: Lucid dreaming
The sleeping sessions: The psychical research-connection
Surrealist psychical research
(Auto-)suggestion and the conflation of subject and object
Simulation and the reality of thought
2. The Period of Reason: Mediums and seers
Introduction: Nadja
Mad, mediumistic, clairvoyant
Surrealist painting and the medium-painters
I say one must be a seer
Seeing Nadja
Surrealist vision
Schaulust, psychic voyeurism, or woman as seen
Visionary alchemy
The Automatic Message: The state of grace
3. The ‘Golden Age’ of the omnipotent mind
Introduction
To conceal, to distinguish, to occult
Agrippa, Flamel and Abraham the Jew
Bringing about the ‘occultation’
Prophecies, premonitions, predictions – surrealist correspondences
Correspondences: Objective chance
Magical thinking and Surrealism as myth
Paranoia, analogy, the uncanny
4. Magic in exile
Occultism in Surrealism on the eve of the Second World War
The Marseille Game
Magus of love: Novalis
In exile abroad: The artist as magician
Surrealist myth ‒ primitives, magicians, fools
Arcanum 17: Magical woman
In conclusion and the Ode to Fourier
5. Arcanum 1947: Poetry, liberty, love
Introduction
The exhibition: First stage
Second and third stage
The beginning of the end? Or initiation into… liberty
Going backwards
L’Art magique ‒ magic art
One in the other: Analogical metaphors and other games
The language of birds and phonetic cabala: Alchemy’s prime
matter
Conclusion
Notes
List of plates
Bibliography
Primary sources
Secondary sources
Film
Index of names