Surrealism, Occultism and Politics: In Search of the Marvellous

"Cover" -- "Half Title" -- "Title Page" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Contents" -- "List of Illustrations" -- "List of Plates" -- "List of Contributors" -- "Introduction: In Search of the Marvellous" -- "PART I:...

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Main Author: Bauduin, Tessel M. (Author)
Contributors: Ferentinou, Victoria (Other) ; Zamani, Daniel (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Milton Taylor and Francis 2017
In:Year: 2017
Edition:1st ed
Series/Journal:Studies in Surrealism
Further subjects:B Surrealism
B Art, Modern 20th century
B Occultism in art
B Surrealist artists
B Art, Modern
B Surrealist artists 20th century
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Parallel Edition:Print version: Bauduin, Tessel M: Surrealism, Occultism and Politics : In Search of the Marvellous. - Milton : Taylor and Francis,c2017. - 9781138054332
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Summary:"Cover" -- "Half Title" -- "Title Page" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Contents" -- "List of Illustrations" -- "List of Plates" -- "List of Contributors" -- "Introduction: In Search of the Marvellous" -- "PART I: Alternative Modes of Knowledge" -- "1 Spiritual Surrealists: Séances, Automatism, and the Creative Unconscious" -- "2 The Vertiginous Pursuit of the Grand Jeu: Experimental Metaphysics, Paramnesia, and Creative Involution" -- "3 Palmistry as Portraiture: Dr. Charlotte Wolff and the Surrealists" -- "4 Occulted Un-Knowing: Bataillean Approaches to the Sacred in Gellu Naum’s Ceasornicaria Taus and Alejo Carpentier’s El Siglo de las Luces" -- "PART II: Myth, Magic and the Search for Re-Enchantment" -- "5 Melusina Triumphant: Matriarchy and the Politics of Anti-Fascist Mythmaking in André Breton’s Arcane 17 (1945)" -- "6 Esotericism and Surrealist Cinema: Wilhelm Freddie’s Films and the New Myth" -- "7 Disenchanted Ground, or Antonin Artaud, Vincent van Gogh and Magic in 1947" -- "8 Kurt Seligmann, Surrealism and the Occult" -- "PART III: Female Artists, Gender and the Occult" -- "9 The Quest for the Goddess: Matriarchy, Surrealism and Gender Politics in the Work of Ithell Colquhoun and Leonora Carrington" -- "10 “On the True Exercise of Witchcraft” in the Work of Remedios Varo" -- "11 Clear Dreaming: Maya Deren, Surrealism and Magic" -- "12 Harbingers of the New Age: Surrealism, Women and the Occult in the United States" -- "Bibliography
ISBN:1351379038