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The ArtsDecember 2013Simulating the marvellous
Psychology - surrealism - postmodernism
by David Lomas
Simulating the marvellous presents important new research on Surrealism and the culture from which it arose. Offering fresh interpretations of Surrealist art and literature based around the theme of simulation, the book shows, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, that the notion of simulation arose in a number of discrete contexts, in relation to hysteria and war neuroses; more broadly it shadows the emergence of our concept of 'the unconscious'. Acknowledging simulation's relevance to Surrealism, this book argues, radically alters our understanding of the Surrealists' project and the terms in which one gauges its success or failure. It leads one to question the naïve assumption that automatic writing or drawing represent an authentic outpouring of the unconscious and gives renewed significance to a figure such as Salvador Dalí who embraced simulation and made it the basis of his art and aesthetic. Resonances are also explored with postmodern theory and art practice, around the themes of simulation and the simulacrum.It also points to one of the ways in which Surrealism chimes with a core preoccupation of contemporary art and theory. Written accessibly, and ranging across many of the core ideas of Surrealism, David Lomas balances coverage of both Surrealist art and literature, looking at such figures as Dalì, Eluard, Masson, Desnos, Brouillet, Picasso, Tanning and Janet, as well as Glenn Brown, Douglas Gordon and Sarah Lucas. The book will interest not only art historians and theorists, but also students and those with a general interest in Surrealism. ;
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The ArtsNovember 2007So exotic, so homemade
Surrealism, Englishness and documentary photography
by Ian Walker, John Taylor
In his previous book City Gorged with Dreams (2002), Ian Walker challenged established ideas about Surrealist photography by emphasising the key role played by documentary photographs in Parisian Surrealism. Now Walker turns his attention to the arrival of Surrealism in England in 1936. Examining for the first time the surprising relationship between Surrealism and English documentary photography and film, the book shows that some of the most interesting work of the period was made in the ambiguous spaces between them. One of the key themes in this book is the relationship between the 'homely' and the 'exotic', in the innovative mix of poetry and ethnography in Mass-Observation for example, or the shadowed England constructed in the work of Bill Brandt. Based on extensive archival research, interviews and visits to sites where the photographs were made, this book is rich in detailed analysis yet written in an accessible and often witty style. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2005Reading Walter Benjamin
Writing through the catastrophe
by Richard Lane
'Reading Walter Benjamin' explores the persistence of absolute in Benjamin's work by sketching-out the relationship between philosphy and theology apparent in his diverse writings, from the early youth-movement essays to the later books, essays and fragments. The book examines Benjamin from two main perspectives: a history-of-ideas approach situating Benjamin in relation to the new German-Jewish thinking at the turn of the twentieth-century, as well as the German youth movements, Surrealism and the 'Georgekreis'; and a conceptual approach examining more critical issues in relation to Benjamin and Kant, modern aesthetics and narrative order. Chapters cover: 'Kulturpessimismus' and the new thinking; metaphysics of youth: Wyneken and 'Rausch'; history: surreal Messianism; Goethe and the 'Georgekreis'; Kant's experience; casting the work of art; disrupting textual order; and exile and the time of crisis. The book uses new translations of Benjamin's essays, fragments and his 'Arcades Project', and makes substantial reference to previously untranslated material. Lane's text allows the non-specialist entry into complex areas of critical theory, simultaneously offering original readings of Benjamin and twentieth-century arts and literature. ;
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Biography & True StoriesMay 2023The invisible painting
by Gabriel Weisz Carrington, Jonathan P. Eburne
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2024Gothic dreams and nightmares
by Carol Davison
Gothic dreams and nightmares is an edited collection on the compelling yet under-theorised subject of Gothic dreams and nightmares ranging across more than two centuries of literature, the visual arts, and twentieth- and twenty-first century visual media. Written by an international group of experts, including leading and lesser-known scholars, it considers its subject in various national, cultural, and socio-historical contexts, engaging with questions of philosophy, morality, rationality, consciousness, and creativity.
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History of Art / Art & Design StylesSeptember 2016Intersections
Women artists/surrealism/modernism
by Series edited by Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon, Patricia Allmer
Featuring new essays by established and emerging scholars, Intersections: Women artists/surrealism/modernism redefines conventional surrealist and modernist canons by focusing critical attention on women artists working in and with surrealism in the context of modernism. In doing so it redefines critical understanding of the complex relations between all three terms. The essays address work produced in a wide variety of international contexts and across several generations of surrealist production by women closely connected to the surrealist movement or more marginally influenced by it. Intersections explores work in a wide range of media, from painting and sculpture to film and fashion, by artists including Susan Hiller, Maya Deren, Birgit Jurgenssen, Aube Elléouët, Dorothea Tanning, Claude Cahun, Elsa Schiaparelli, Joyce Mansour, Leonor Fini, Mimi Parent, Lee Miller, Leonora Carrington, Ithell Colquhoun and Eileen Agar.
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Children's & YA2017Lucy and Mum's Shoes
by Emily Child
Lucy and Mum's Shoes (written by Emily Child and illustrated by Warwick Kay) is the story a girl who hears the world a little differently. She is fascinated by the sounds around her, especially the sound of shoes. She dreams of a life where she is surrounded by high-heels. She dreams of being grown-up. Feeling brave one morning, Lucy sneaks into her mother’s cupboard and tries on her favourite pair of stilettos. An unusual and dreamlike day of high-heeled hope, happiness and hindrance follows, leaving Lucy a little less certain that she wants to feel grown-up after all… Lucy invites children (and adults) to be a part of her unique and quirky soundscape. Infused with a surreal eccentricity, this story uncovers what it means to “love the shoes you’re in”.
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September 2008Wo ist meine Schwester?
by Sven Nordqvist, Sven Nordqvist, Angelika Kutsch
In "Wo ist meine Schwester?" begibt sich ein junger Mäusejunge auf die Suche nach seiner verschwundenen Schwester. Gemeinsam mit seinem Großvater macht er sich in einem Birnenballon auf eine fantastische Reise durch surreale Traumwelten, die von Sven Nordqvist meisterhaft in detailreichen Bildern dargestellt werden. Auf jeder Seite gibt es unzählige kleine Geschichten und Bilder zu entdecken, die Leser*innen jeden Alters in ihren Bann ziehen. Die Suche nach der Schwester verbindet die einzelnen Zeichnungen zu einer bezaubernden Geschichte, die zum Staunen und Entdecken einlädt. Nordqvists Kunstwerk fasziniert nicht nur Kinder, sondern auch Erwachsene und lädt dazu ein, immer wieder in diese magische Welt einzutauchen. Traumhafte Illustrationen: Die opulenten und fantasievollen Bilder von Sven Nordqvist entführen die Leser in eine faszinierende Welt voller Details und surrealer Elemente. Stundenlanger Entdeckungsspaß: Auf jeder Seite gibt es unzählige Geschichten und Bilder zu entdecken, die zum immer wieder anschauen und staunen einladen. Für Jung und Alt: Das Buch begeistert Kinder ab fünf Jahren sowie Erwachsene gleichermaßen und bietet eine gemeinsame Entdeckungsreise für die ganze Familie. Kreative Handlung: Die Suche nach der verschwundenen Schwester verbindet die einzelnen Bilder zu einer fesselnden Geschichte, die die Fantasie anregt und zum Mitfiebern einlädt. Kunstvoller Bildband: "Wo ist meine Schwester?" ist nicht nur ein Kinderbuch, sondern auch ein Kunstwerk, das mit dem renommierten August-Strindberg-Preis ausgezeichnet wurde. Stimulierung der Vorstellungskraft: Die surrealen Traumwelten regen die Vorstellungskraft an und bieten Raum für eigene Geschichten und Interpretationen. Ideales Geschenk: Das Buch eignet sich hervorragend als Geschenk für Kindergeburtstage, Weihnachten oder andere Anlässe und bereitet lange Freude. Weitere Bilderbuch-Kunstwerke von Sven Nordqvist: Spaziergang mit Hund Der Weg nach Hause
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2022Germaine Dulac
by Maryann De Julio, Diana Holmes, Robert Ingram
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November 2013Frühlingsregen
Gedichte und Bilder
by Roberto Yáñez
Magische Landschaften aus Pyramiden und Würfeln, übernatürlich leuchtende Bergseen und bizarre Gestalten formen die phantasmagorische Bildwelt des chilenischen Malers und Lyrikers Roberto Yañez. Dieses Buch verbindet die farbkräftigen Gebilde mit Versen, die ihre surreale Herkunft nicht verleugnen. Bald schlägt den Dichter ein Gespenst, bald ein Satan, gelegentlich auch ein merkwürdiger Engel in seinen Bann. Dann regt sich unter dem Bann schwerer Träume etwas wie die Sehnsucht nach Einheit und Erneuerung: »Jetzt ist die Welt wieder zusammengewachsen.«
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June 2021Twelve Lectures on Modernist Literature
by Liu Qinghua
"Twelve Lectures on Modernist Literature" is a review and appreciation of the main modernist literary schools in the 20th century made by the literary critic Liu Qinghua. This book outlines the formation, development, ideological origins, theoretical foundations, and ideological and artistic characteristics of modernist literature. It is divided into eleven topics, respectively, on symbolism, stream of consciousness novels, futurism, expressionism, and surrealism. , Existentialism, Beat Generation and other genres have done systematic research and exposition, and at the same time analyzed and commented on representative writers and works of each genre. For literature lovers and researchers at home and abroad, this book is a rare desk book.
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Theory of ArtSeptember 2016Mixed messages
American correspondences in visual and verbal practices
by Edited by Catherine Gander, Sarah Garland
Offering a major contribution to the field of American culture and aesthetics in an interdisciplinary frame, this collection assembles the cutting-edge research of renowned and emerging scholars in literature and the visual arts, with a foreword by Miles Orvell. The volume represents the first of its kind: an intervention in current interdisciplinary approaches to the intersections of the written word and the visual image that moves beyond standard theoretical approaches to consider the written and visual artwork in embodied, cognitive and experiential terms. Tracing a strong lineage of pragmatism, romanticism, surrealism and dada in American intermedial works through the nineteenth century to the present day, the editors and authors of this volume chart a new and vital methodology for the study and appreciation of the correspondences between visual and verbal practices.
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May 2024Ich bin der Bruder von XX
Erzählungen | Die internationale Neuentdeckung einer großen Autorin
by Fleur Jaeggy, Barbara Schaden
»Danken wir den Göttern und dem Teufel für Fleur Jaeggy!« Claire-Louise Bennett Fleur Jaeggy erzählt von Wahnsinn, Verlust und Mord, vom Fluch, eine Familie zu haben, und von der durch nichts zu vertreibenden Nähe des Todes. Dabei erschafft sie surreale Bilder, die sich in die Seele rammen, Geschichten von kristalliner Schönheit, die von einem bösartigen Zauber beseelt scheinen, champagnerfarbene Welten, die vor stiller Gewalt brodeln. Fleur Jaeggy ist eine Poetin der Verzweiflung und eine Virtuosin des Schauers: Ihre jenseitigen Geschichten zu lesen, das ist, als würde man sich nackt und kopfüber in ein Gestrüpp aus schwarzen Rosensträuchern stürzen – am Ende kommt man blutüberströmt und geläutert wieder heraus.
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Bearing Witness
by Vinita Ramani, Griselda Gabriele
Suffering from postpartum depression after the birth of her first child, a 42-year old musters up the courage to try for another baby. Struggling through two trimesters of nausea, exhaustion and recurrent, intense dreams, she hopes to hit the 20-week milestone and see light at the end of the tunnel, only to discover during the routine ultrasound scan, that her baby has passed away. She is hospitalised to induce labour, and give birth to her little 20-week old son. And so begins a surreal life on the other side of loss, where grief and ecstasy are often bedfellows, tears come from nowhere, other people’s babies become the objects of intense affection and where the baby that never came to be, shows up in stars, stones, seeds and her toddler’s imagination.
