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Author:   Tessel M. Bauduin (The University of Amsterdam) ,  Victoria Ferentinou (University of Ioannina) ,  Daniel Zamani (Trinity College, University of Cambridge; Städel Museum)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.770kg
ISBN:  

9781138054332

ISBN 10:   113805433
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   11 October 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents List of Contributors List of Plates List of Illustrations Introduction: In Search of the Marvellous Tessel M. Bauduin, Victoria Ferentinou and Daniel Zamani Part I: Alternative Modes of Knowledge 1 Spiritual Surrealists: Séances, Automatism, and the Creative Unconscious Claudie Massicotte 2 The Vertiginous Pursuit of the Grand Jeu: Experimental Metaphysics, Paramnesia, and Creative Involution Donna Roberts 3 Palmistry as Portraiture: Dr. Charlotte Wolff and the Surrealists M. E. Warlick 4 Occulted Un-Knowing: Bataillean Approaches to the Sacred in Gellu Naum’s Ceasornicãria Taus and Alejo Carpentier’s El Siglo de las Luces Vivienne Brough-Evans 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 Daniel Zamani 6 Esotericism and Surrealist Cinema: Wilhelm Freddie’s Films and the New Myth Kristoffer Noheden 7 Disenchanted Ground, or Antonin Artaud, Vincent van Gogh and Magic in 1947 Gavin Parkinson 8 Kurt Seligmann, Surrealism and the Occult Gražina Subelytė 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 Victoria Ferentinou 10 On the True Exercise of Witchcraft in the Work of Remedios Varo María José González Madrid 11 Clear Dreaming: Maya Deren, Surrealism and Magic Judith Noble 12 Harbingers of the New Age: Surrealism, Women and the Occult in the United States Susan Aberth Bibliography

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"""The book presents a fine collection of original scholarship.Recommended to those interested in the intersection of art and alternative religiosity."" - Grzegorz Frąszczak, Religious Studies Review"

The various essays shed light on how esoteric/occult ideas, assumptions, and intuitions evolved within and through surrealist artistic creations. The book presents a fine collection of original scholarship. Recommended to those interested in the intersection of art and alternative religiosity. --Religious Studies Review

The various essays shed light on how esoteric/occult ideas, assumptions, and intuitions evolved within and through surrealist artistic creations. The book presents a fine collection of original scholarship. Recommended to those interested in the intersection of art and alternative religiosity. --Religious Studies Review

Author Information

Tessel M. Bauduin is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. Victoria Ferentinou is assistant professor at the University of Ioannina. Daniel Zamani is a PhD student at Trinity College, University of Cambridge and an assistant curator at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main.

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