Surrealism and the Occult - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Surrealism and the Occult write by Nadia Choucha. This book was released on 1992-10. Surrealism and the Occult available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Searching for a deeper understanding of the power and influence of surrealist art, Nadia Choucha clearly confirms that many surrealists and their predecessors were steeped in magical ideas. The Theosophical involvement of Kandinsky, the visionary paintings of Salvador Dali, the alchemy of Pablo Picasso, and the shamanism of Max Ernst and Leonora Carrington all demonstrate the fundamental and dynamic impact of magic and mysticism on surrealism. Surrealist artists believed that society had much to learn from the unconditioned, spontaneous forms of art produced by spiritual mediums, children, untutored artists, and the insane. In their attempt to tap the unconscious regions of the mind, the surrealists borrowed imagery from alchemy, the Tarot, Gnosticism, Tantra, and other esoteric traditions and sought inspiration from ancient myths, 'irrational' thought, and ethnic art. Enhanced by both color and black-and-white reproductions of fine art, Choucha's account explains the intimate connections between occult and surrealist philosophies and provides an essential key to the mysteries of the surrealist movement and the forces that give it life" --Back cover.
Surrealism And The Sacred
Surrealism And The Sacred - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Surrealism And The Sacred write by Celia Rabinovitch. This book was released on 2002-04-14. Surrealism And The Sacred available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A vital new interpretation of the personalities, historical forces and intellectual paradigms that created Surrealist art
The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism
The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism write by Patrick Lepetit. This book was released on 2014-04-24. The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A profound understanding of the surrealists’ connections with alchemists and secret societies and the hermetic aspirations revealed in their works • Explains how surrealist paintings and poems employed mythology, gnostic principles, tarot, voodoo, alchemy, and other hermetic sciences to seek out unexplored regions of the mind and recover lost “psychic” and magical powers • Provides many examples of esoteric influence in surrealism, such as how Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon was originally titled The Bath of the Philosophers Not merely an artistic or literary movement as many believe, the surrealists rejected the labels of artist and author bestowed upon them by outsiders, accepting instead the titles of magician, alchemist, or--in the case of Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo--witch. Their paintings, poems, and other works were created to seek out unexplored regions of the mind and recover lost “psychic” and magical powers. They used creative expression as the vehicle to attain what André Breton called the “supreme point,” the point at which all opposites cease to be perceived as contradictions. This supreme point is found at the heart of all esoteric doctrines, including the Great Work of alchemy, and enables communication with higher states of being. Drawing on an extensive range of writings by the surrealists and those in their circle of influence, Patrick Lepetit shows how the surrealists employed mythology, gnostic principles, tarot, voodoo, and alchemy not simply as reference points but as significant elements of their ongoing investigations into the fundamental nature of consciousness. He provides many specific examples of esoteric influence among the surrealists, such as how Picasso’s famous Demoiselles d’Avignon was originally titled The Bath of the Philosophers, how painter Victor Brauner drew from his father’s spiritualist vocation as well as the Kabbalah and tarot, and how doctor and surrealist author Pierre Mabille was a Freemason focused on finding initiatory paths where “it is possible to feel a new system connecting man with the universe.” Lepetit casts new light on the connection between key figures of the movement and the circle of adepts gathered around Fulcanelli. He also explores the relationship between surrealists and Freemasonry, Martinists, and the Elect Cohen as well as the Grail mythos and the Arthurian brotherhood.
Surrealism, Occultism and Politics
Surrealism, Occultism and Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Surrealism, Occultism and Politics write by Tessel M. Bauduin. This book was released on 2017-10-16. Surrealism, Occultism and Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume examines the relationship between occultism and Surrealism, specifically exploring the reception and appropriation of occult thought, motifs, tropes and techniques by Surrealist artists and writers in Europe and the Americas, from the 1920s through the 1960s. Its central focus is the specific use of occultism as a site of political and social resistance, ideological contestation, subversion and revolution. Additional focus is placed on the ways occultism was implicated in Surrealist discourses on identity, gender, sexuality, utopianism and radicalism.
The Occult in Modernist Art, Literature, and Cinema
The Occult in Modernist Art, Literature, and Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Occult in Modernist Art, Literature, and Cinema write by Tessel M. Bauduin. This book was released on 2018-05-15. The Occult in Modernist Art, Literature, and Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many modernist and avant-garde artists and authors were fascinated by the occult movements of their day. This volume explores how Occultism came to shape modernist art, literature, and film. Individual chapters examine the presence and role of Occultism in the work of such modernist luminaries as Rainer Maria Rilke, August Strindberg, W.B. Yeats, Joséphin Péladan and the artist Jan Švankmaier, as well as in avant-garde film, post-war Greek Surrealism, and Scandinavian Retrogardism. Combining the theoretical and methodological foundations of the field of Esotericism Studies with those of Literary Studies, Art History, and Cinema Studies, this volume provides in-depth and nuanced perspectives upon the relationship between Occultism and Modernism in the Western arts from the nineteenth century to the present day.
