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Alchemy in Contemporary Art (Paperback)
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Alchemy in Contemporary Art (Paperback)
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Alchemy in Contemporary Art analyzes the manner in which
twentieth-century artists, beginning with French Surrealists of the
1920s, have appropriated concepts and imagery from the western
alchemical tradition. This study examines artistic production from
c. 1920 to the present, with an emphasis on the 1970s to 2000,
discussing familiar names such as Andre Breton, Salvador Dali, Yves
Klein, Joseph Beuys, and Anselm Kiefer, as well as many little
known artists of the later twentieth century. It provides a
critical overview of the alchemical tradition in twentieth-century
art, and of the use of occultist imagery as a code for political
discourse and polemical engagement. The study is the first to
examine the influence of alchemy and the Surrealist tradition on
Australian as well as on Eastern European and Mexican art. In
addition, the text considers the manner in which women artists such
as Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, and Rebecca Horn have
critically revised the traditional sexist imagery of alchemy and
occultism for their own feminist purposes.
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