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Enchanted Ground: André Breton, Modernism and the Surrealist Appraisal of Fin-de-Siècle Painting

Autor Dr Gavin Parkinson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 mai 2018

Adresat cercetătorilor în istoria artei, studenților de la nivel universitar și pasionaților de avangardă, Enchanted Ground propune o reevaluare a canonului post-impresionist dintr-o perspectivă ignorată adesea de critica tradițională. Descoperim aici modul în care André Breton și cercul său au interpretat opera unor maeștri precum Paul Cézanne sau Vincent van Gogh nu prin prisma formei pure sau a tehnicii, ci prin lentila esoterismului, a alchimiei și a precogniției. Reținem că această lucrare a fost recunoscută pentru valoarea sa academică, fiind nominalizată la R. Gapper Book Prize în 2020.

Spre deosebire de abordările formaliste ale unor critici ca Roger Fry sau Clement Greenberg, care au dominat secolul XX, Dr Gavin Parkinson demonstrează cum suprarealiștii au văzut în pictură un teren al magiei. Profesorii care utilizează Surrealism and the Visual Arts de Kim Grant vor aprecia la acest volum modul în care Parkinson extinde analiza dincolo de mijlocul anilor '30, investigând fascinația mișcării pentru ezoterism în perioada postbelică. În timp ce Kim Grant se concentrează pe dezvoltarea teoriei vizuale, Parkinson face o arheologie a interpretărilor mistice, oferind o alternativă la viziunea „dezvrăjită” a modernismului standard.

Structura volumului este riguros organizată pe studii de caz: de la „psihoanalizarea” lui Cézanne la dialectica lui Seurat sau miturile lui Gauguin. Autorul continuă aici preocupările din lucrări anterioare precum Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism, depășind granițele cronologice obișnuite ale mișcării. Putem afirma că Enchanted Ground transformă artiștii canonici în figuri vizionare, integrând arta fin-de-siècle într-un discurs al rezistenței prin apelul la irațional și ocult.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501337253
ISBN-10: 1501337254
Pagini: 376
Ilustrații: 15 colour and 113 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Recomandăm această lucrare celor care doresc să descopere o față mai puțin explorată a istoriei artei: legătura dintre avangardă și ezoterism. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă profundă asupra modului în care suprarealismul a reinterpretat marii pictori post-impresioniști, oferind un instrument critic esențial pentru cursurile de modernism european sau pentru oricine este interesat de impactul ocultismului asupra culturii vizuale moderne.


Descriere

Shortlisted for the R. Gapper Book Prize 2020

Enchanted Ground
is about the challenge to modernist criticism by Surrealist writers - mainly André Breton but also Louis Aragon, Pierre Mabille, René Magritte, Charles Estienne, René Huyghe and others - who viewed the same artists in terms of magic, occultism, precognition, alchemy and esotericism generally. It introduces the history of the ways in which those artists who came after Impressionism - Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh - became canonical in the 20th century through the broad approaches we now call modernist or formalist (by critics and curators such as Alfred H. Barr, Roger Fry, Robert Goldwater, Clement Greenberg, John Rewald and Robert L. Herbert), and then unpacks chapter-by-chapter, for the first time in a single volume, the Surrealist positions on the same artists. To this end, it contributes to new strains of scholarship on Surrealism that exceed the usual bounds of the 1920s and 1930s and that examine the fascination within the movement with magic.

Cuprins

Introduction: Art After Impressionism After Surrealism
Ch. 1 Greengrocer, Bricklayer or Seer? Psychoanalyzing Paul Cézanne
Ch. 2 Painting as Propaganda and Prophecy: René Magritte and Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Ch. 3 Method and Poetry: Georges Seurat's Surrealist Dialectic
Ch. 4 Between Dog and Wolf: Georges Seurat, Brassaï and the City of Light
Ch. 5 Civilization, Realism, Abstraction: Paul Gauguin and Surrealism, 1948-53
Ch. 6 Dialectic of Brittany: From Myth to Folklore in Paul Gauguin and Surrealism
Epilogue: Disenchanted Ground, or Vincent van Gogh, Antonin Artaud and Magic in 1947
Conclusion: On André Breton
Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index

Recenzii

Parkinson's extensive knowledge of the field allows him to navigate with ease between continents, following the various developments and reception of modern art in the twentieth century. His ability to modify the length of his focus from detailed textual analysis to wider comparative geographical and art historical contexts makes this book one of the most astute on the movement to date.
Gavin Parkinson had the novel idea to reconsider the canonical figures of late nineteenth century French painting as they appear within the discourse of Surrealism: Cézanne or Gauguin through Breton or Dalí. His gambit pays off brilliantly. He ferrets out a shadow history of French modernism, tracking long-lost interpretive metaphors that shift from positive to negative and back again. The surrealist alternative to traditional criticism generates an unfamiliar constellation of cultural significance. From out of its obscurity, Parkinson reveals the "mythic, poetic or magic resonance" of the practice otherwise known as modernism.
Gauguin, Cézanne, Seurat-those canonical modernists we thought we knew-are reinvested with myth, magic and poetry in this lively and polemical account of their 'Surrealisation' in the mid-20th century. Parkinson pulls no punches in voting for the Surrealists as the most perceptive interpreters of this alternative cast of 19th-century precursors.
Enchanted Ground highlights Parkinson's skill in asking unexpected questions of modern art, matched with astute answers; and in taking Surrealism seriously, as a source of vivid and relevant ideas rather than just an art movement. This book's great strength lies in shining a searchlight at its material, not simply to look at Surrealism, but look with it and through it, alert to the refractions that illuminate adjacent histories in fresh ways. Enchanted Ground is on high alert to details, anomalies and the overlooked, using them to unpick received wisdom about Surrealism, modernism and art history itself.
Gavin Parkinson's text is a timely reminder that there are other ways of seeing the founding fathers of modernist painting than through the lens of Greenberg's formalism. He explores the posthumous critical fortunes of Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh and Seurat in the writings of the doyen of Surrealism, André Breton. Part intricate historiography, gathering together writings that have hitherto been overlooked because dispersed and difficult of access, Enchanted Ground brings us familiar art from an unfamiliar, indeed magical, Surrealist perspective. This is an arresting, ambitious and important book.