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Book SynopsisThrough various thematic perspectives and a range of media, this book will shed new light on the history of Surrealism. With the idea of the unconscious as a turning point, The Savage Eye traces the roots of Surrealism in Symbolism and shows how the two art movements both reflect each other and overlap. Some of the most significant artists in modern art meet here in the murky depths of the human mind, where logic and morality give way to dreams, disturbing impulses, and unbridled desire. In this illuminating book you will become familiar with two radical art movements that both explored the psyche with the aim of establishing a new concept of humanity. Through artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Paul Gauguin, Dora Maar, René Magritte, Lee Miller, Joan Miró, Odilon Redon, and Auguste Rodin we will take you on a journey through the limitless world of the unconscious.
Table of ContentsThe Savage Eye The Surrealism of Edvard Munch A Case Study in the Symbolist Genealogy of Surrealism Other Realities Automatic Messages ‘A Maze of Lines’: Reading the Tangle in the Visual Culture of Symbolism and Surrealism Formless Bodies The Surreal Life: Psychoanalysis and Surrealism Revolutionary Desire Marvellous Nature A Natural History of August Strindberg’s Surrealism Mythic Unconscious A Surrealist Manifesto of Symbolism: André Breton Charles Filiger and Dessins Symbolistes Haunted Identities
