Description
Book SynopsisIn this study of surrealism and ghostliness, Katharine Conley provides a new, unifying theory of surrealist art and thought based on history and the paradigm of puns and anamorphosis. In Surrealist Ghostliness, Conley discusses surrealism as a movement haunted by the experience of World War I and the repressed ghost of spiritualism.
Trade Review"Conley's study offers a new theorization of surrealism that unifies its diverse and multiple iterations and recasts its chronological limits."—Effie Rentzou,
SubStance"[
Surrealist Ghostliness] is an important addition to the literature on surrealism and modern art, very well written and an extremely interesting and engaging read."—Rob Harle,
Leonardo Journal"Conley offers a richly argued discussion, speculative and articulate, that usefully contributes to our reading of the 'long Surrealism'."—Robert Radford,
Burlington MagazineTable of ContentsList of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Cinematic Whirl of Man Ray's Ghostly Objects
2. Claude Cahun's Exploration of the Autobiographical Human
3. The Ethnographic Automatism of Brassaï and Dalí's Involuntary Sculptures
4. The Ghostliness in Lee Miller's Egyptian Landscapes
5. Dorothea Tanning's Gothic Ghostliness
6. Francesca Woodman's Ghostly Interior Maps
7. Pierre Alechinsky's Ghostly Palimpsests
8. Susan Hiller's Freudian Ghosts
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
