The Surrealist Movement is an international intellectual movement
that has led a sustained questioning of the basis of human
experience under twentieth- and twenty-first century modernity
since its founding in the early 1920s. Influenced by the
psychoanalytical teachings of Sigmund Freud, Surrealism emerged
among the generation that had witnessed the insanity and horror of
the First World War, and was conceived of as a framework for
investigating the little-understood phenomena of dreams and the
unconscious. In these territories the surrealists recognized an
alternative axis of human experience that did not align with the
rational, workaday rhythms of modern life, and which instead
revealed the extent to which individual subjectivity had been
constrained by post-Enlightenment rationalism and by the economic
forces governing the post-industrial world. Against these trends,
the Surrealist Movement has sought to re-evaluate the foundations
of modern society and reassert the primacy of the imagination for
almost a century to-date. This book offers focused introductions to
numerous writers, poets, artists, filmmakers, precursors, groups,
movements, events, concepts, cultures, nations and publications
connected to Surrealism, providing orientation for students and
casual readers alike. Historical Dictionary of Surrealism, Second
Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive
bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 200
cross-referenced entries on the Surrealist Movement's engagement
with the realms of politics, philosophy, science, poetry, art and
cinema, and charts the international surrealist community's diverse
explorations of specific thematic territories such as magic,
occultism, mythology, eroticism and gothicism. This book is an
excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to
know more about surrealism.
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