Enchanted Ground

André Breton, Modernism and the Surrealist Appraisal of Fin-de-Siècle Painting

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

AvGavin Parkinson

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Shortlisted for the R. Gapper Book Prize 2020Enchanted Ground is about the challenge to modernist criticism by Surrealist writers – mainly André Breton but also Louis Aragon, Pierre Mabille, René Magritte, Charles Estienne, René Huyghe and others – who viewed the same artists in terms of magic, occultism, precognition, alchemy and esotericism generally. It introduces the history of the ways in which those artists who came after Impressionism – Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh – became canonical in the 20th century through the broad approaches we now call modernist or formalist (by critics and curators such as Alfred H. Barr, Roger Fry, Robert Goldwater, Clement Greenberg, John Rewald and Robert L. Herbert), and then unpacks chapter-by-chapter, for the first time in a single volume, the Surrealist positions on the same artists. To this end, it contributes to new strains of scholarship on Surrealism that exceed the usual bounds of the 1920s and 1930s and that examine the fascination within the movement with magic.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-05-17
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt676 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor376
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781501337253
UtmärkelserShort-listed for R. Gapper Book Prize 2020 (UK)

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Gavin Parkinson is Senior Lecturer in European Modernism at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK. He is the author of Futures of Surrealism: Myth, Science Fiction and Fantastic Art in France 1936-1969 (2015), Surrealism, Art and Modern Science: Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Epistemology (2008), and The Duchamp Book (2008), as well as the editor of Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comics (2015).

Introduction: Art After Impressionism After SurrealismCh. 1 Greengrocer, Bricklayer or Seer? Psychoanalyzing Paul CézanneCh. 2 Painting as Propaganda and Prophecy: René Magritte and Pierre-Auguste RenoirCh. 3 Method and Poetry: Georges Seurat’s Surrealist DialecticCh. 4 Between Dog and Wolf: Georges Seurat, Brassaï and the City of LightCh. 5 Civilization, Realism, Abstraction: Paul Gauguin and Surrealism, 1948-53Ch. 6 Dialectic of Brittany: From Myth to Folklore in Paul Gauguin and SurrealismEpilogue: Disenchanted Ground, or Vincent van Gogh, Antonin Artaud and Magic in 1947 Conclusion: On André BretonBibliographyList of IllustrationsIndex