Overview
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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Author: Tessel Bauduin
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Imprint: Amsterdam University Press
Edition: 0
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 23.40cm
ISBN: 9789089646361
ISBN 10: 9089646361
Pages: 262
Publication Date: 29 August 2014
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This is easily the best analysis of the complex relationship between Surrealism and Western Esotericism. Based upon thorough research of primary sources, Bauduin shows how the occult became important to Andr� Breton's movement in spite of its secular foundations. -- Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, University of Amsterdam [-] An excellent analysis of the impact of esoteric currents on surrealism. Bauduin challenges many of the previous notions about Andr� Breton's intellectual and artistic debt to esotericism, and argues convincingly for the increased importance of esoteric practices to Breton and his circle. This book is destined to become a standard source for the relationship between occultism and art in general, and Bretonian surrealism in particular. -- Henrik Bogdan, co-editor of Occultism in a Global Perspective (2013) and associate professor Religious Studies, University of Gothenburg [-] Breton gebruikte het occultisme vooral - en met succes - om het surrealisme complex en ontoegankelijk te maken. Met kennis van zaken en door minutieus onderzoek in de primaire en secundaire bronnen draagt de auteur zo bij aan een wetenschappelijke benadering van de zo belangrijke wisselwerking tussen kunstenaars en esoterie, die opgevat kan worden als een van de onderstromen in de twintigste-eeuwse kunst. --Uit juryrapport van Vereniging van Nederlandse Kunsthistorici (VNK) bij de nominatie voor de Jan van Gelder Prijs in 2013
This is easily the best analysis of the complex relationship between Surrealism and Western Esotericism. Based upon thorough research of primary sources, Bauduin shows how the occult became important to Andr Breton's movement in spite of its secular foundations. -- Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, University of Amsterdam [-] An excellent analysis of the impact of esoteric currents on surrealism. Bauduin challenges many of the previous notions about Andr Breton's intellectual and artistic debt to esotericism, and argues convincingly for the increased importance of esoteric practices to Breton and his circle. This book is destined to become a standard source for the relationship between occultism and art in general, and Bretonian surrealism in particular. -- Henrik Bogdan, co-editor of Occultism in a Global Perspective (2013) and associate professor Religious Studies, University of Gothenburg [-] Breton gebruikte het occultisme vooral - en met succes - om het surrealisme complex en ontoegankelijk te maken. Met kennis van zaken en door minutieus onderzoek in de primaire en secundaire bronnen draagt de auteur zo bij aan een wetenschappelijke benadering van de zo belangrijke wisselwerking tussen kunstenaars en esoterie, die opgevat kan worden als een van de onderstromen in de twintigste-eeuwse kunst. --Uit juryrapport van Vereniging van Nederlandse Kunsthistorici (VNK) bij de nominatie voor de Jan van Gelder Prijs in 2013
Breton gebruikte het occultisme vooral - en met succes - om het surrealisme complex en ontoegankelijk te maken. Met kennis van zaken en door minutieus onderzoek in de primaire en secundaire bronnen draagt de auteur zo bij aan een wetenschappelijke benadering van de zo belangrijke wisselwerking tussen kunstenaars en esoterie, die opgevat kan worden als een van de onderstromen in de twintigste-eeuwse kunst. Uit juryrapport van Vereniging van Nederlandse Kunsthistorici (VNK) bij de nominatie voor de Jan van Gelder Prijs in 2013[-] This is easily the best analysis of the complex relationship between Surrealism and Western Esotericism. Based upon thorough research of primary sources, Bauduin shows how the occult became important to Andr Breton's movement in spite of its secular foundations. [-]Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, University of Amsterdam [-] An excellent analysis of the impact of esoteric currents on surrealism. Bauduin challenges many of the previous notions about Andr Breton's intellectual and artistic debt to esotericism, and argues convincingly for the increased importance of esoteric practices to Breton and his circle. This book is destined to become a standard source for the relationship between occultism and art in general, and Bretonian surrealism in particular. [-]Henrik Bogdan, co-editor of Occultism in a Global Perspective (2013) and associate professor Religious Studies, University of Gothenburg[-]
This is easily the best analysis of the complex relationship between Surrealism and Western Esotericism. Based upon thorough research of primary sources, Bauduin shows how the occult became important to Andr Breton's movement in spite of its secular foundations. -- Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, University of Amsterdam [-] An excellent analysis of the impact of esoteric currents on surrealism. Bauduin challenges many of the previous notions about Andr Breton's intellectual and artistic debt to esotericism, and argues convincingly for the increased importance of esoteric practices to Breton and his circle. This book is destined to become a standard source for the relationship between occultism and art in general, and Bretonian surrealism in particular. -- Henrik Bogdan, co-editor of Occultism in a Global Perspective (2013) and associate professor Religious Studies, University of Gothenburg [-] Breton gebruikte het occultisme vooral - en met succes - om het surrealisme complex en ontoegankelijk te maken. Met kennis van zaken en door minutieus onderzoek in de primaire en secundaire bronnen draagt de auteur zo bij aan een wetenschappelijke benadering van de zo belangrijke wisselwerking tussen kunstenaars en esoterie, die opgevat kan worden als een van de onderstromen in de twintigste-eeuwse kunst. --Uit juryrapport van Vereniging van Nederlandse Kunsthistorici (VNK) bij de nominatie voor de Jan van Gelder Prijs in 2013
Author Information
Dr Tessel M. Bauduin is a historian of art and culture. She holds a PhD in the Arts from the University of Amsterdam, and is currently affiliated with the Radboud University, Nijmegen, as a post-doctoral researcher. Her research interests include the historical avant-garde, especially Surrealism; Modernism and occulture; Modernist medievalism.
