Surrealism & The Occult
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Nadia Choucha examines a strand of Surrealism that conventional introductions can leave in the background: its engagement with magic, alchemy and esoteric thought. Rather than treating mysterious symbols as decoration, she asks how such ideas helped artists imagine different relationships between the mind and the visible world.
The discussion connects figures including André Breton, Max Ernst and Leonora Carrington with a longer history of occult interests and artistic experimentation. This is primarily a text-led art-historical study, rather than a large-format collection of reproductions. It will appeal to readers who want to think more deeply about automatic drawing, transformation and symbolic imagery, and who are curious about the intellectual sources behind some of modern art’s most enigmatic pictures.
Book Details
- Author / editor: Nadia Choucha
- Publisher: Mandrake of Oxford
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781906958749
- Publication date: 01/12/2016
- Language: English
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