UID:
edocfu_9958960594902883
Format:
1 online resource :
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36 color plates, 14 halftones
ISBN:
9789048523023
Content:
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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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction: The Occultation of Surrealism --
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1. The Time of Slumbers: Psychic automatism and surrealist research --
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2. The Period of Reason: Mediums and seers --
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3. The ‘Golden Age’ of the omnipotent mind --
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4. Magic in exile --
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5. Arcanum 1947: Poetry, liberty, love --
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Conclusion --
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Notes --
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List of plates --
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Bibliography --
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Index of names
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9789048523023
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048523023
