Enchanted Ground - Andre Breton, Modernism and the Surrealist Appraisal of Fin-de-Siecle Painting (Hardcover)

Enchanted Ground is about the challenge to modernist criticism by Surrealist writers - mainly Andre Breton but also Louis Aragon, Pierre Mabille, Rene Magritte, Charles Estienne, Rene 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 Cezanne, 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.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2018
Authors:	Gavin Parkinson (Professor of European Modernism)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	376
ISBN-13:	978-1-5013-3725-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, First World War to 1960 > Surrealism & Dada
LSN:	1-5013-3725-4
Barcode:	9781501337253

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