From the Visual to the Visionary: Surrealist Trajectories in Art
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This book aims to investigate Surrealisms precedents in visual tradition and to explore its influence on contemporary art. Taking the ideational power of vision as their starting point, these thirteen essays apply different perspectives to themes essential to the Surrealist avant-garde dreams, magic, madness but also mystic visions, hybridity and the ongoing relevance of syncretic figures as protean germinations of the irrational. The collection opens with a reconsideration of André Bretons late book, LArt magique (1957). The other essays cover a wide array of themes, ranging from witches iconography in the early modern period to immersive contemporary video installations, while devoting particular attention to specific Surrealism-related topics. Following the fil rouge traced by Breton, the possibility of an alternative art-historical narrative clearly emerges.
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Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
Publication Date: 10 Mar 2024
Publisher: Mimesis International
Publication City/Country: Italy
Language: English
ISBN13: 9788869774201
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Alessandra Buccheri lectures in History of Art at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo. She completed her doctorate at Oxford in 2009 and became a fellow of Columbia Universitys Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America in the autumn semester of 2021. She is well published and her research is concerned with art architecture and stage design in early modern times. She is the author of The Spectacle of Clouds 1439-1650: Italian Art and Theatre (London: Ashgate 2014). Giulia Ingarao lectures in History of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo. She completed her postgraduate studies in Art History at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Her principal areas of research are Surrealism Gender Studies and postwar Italian art. She has published numerous essays many of which concern the Surrealist diaspora in Mexico; she is the author of the monograph Leonora Carrington: The Image of Dreams (Milan: Mimesis 2022). Emilia Valenza lectures in History of Contemporary Art at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo. She has been active as a curator and critic of contemporary art since 1990. She has published numerous essays and articles which mainly concern photography sculpture and women artists. She is Co-Curator of the project Madonie-Paesaggi 1973-2021 (Madonia-Landscapes 1973-2021) which in 2021 won the Ministry of Culture (MIC) National Competition Strategia Fotografia