Description: From archaic fetishism, found objects, dream images and free association, Surrealist artists and writers - such as Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, Meret Oppenheim and Wolfgang Paalen - transformed the ordinary into the extraordinary by deliberately evoking the ambivalence of sacred power. Surrealism and the Sacred traces the conflict between the secular and sacred forces from prehistory and paganism through the Renaissance and the occult revival of the 19th century to the Surrealist movement of the 20th century. Against the tyranny of reason and the European bourgeoisie, Surrealists drew from occultism, Asian religions and mysticism, and psychoanalysis to create an uncanny and creative state of mind that continues to have a profound effect on the modern imagination. This remarkable book challenges conventional assumptions about modern art and its larger meanings in the history of knowledge.
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Binding: Hardcover
Book Title: Surrealism and the Sacred : Power, Eros, and the Occult in Modern Art
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Avalon Publishing
Publication Year: 2002
Topic: History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Criticism & Theory, General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art
Item Weight: 19.5 Oz
Author: Celia Rabinovitch
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
