Surrealism and the Occult: Shamanism, Magic, Alchemy, and the Birth of an Artistic Movement

by Nadia Choucha

Paperback, 1992

Status

Available

Call number

NX456.S8 C46

Publication

Inner Traditions Bear and Company (1992), Edition: 2nd Original ed., 152 pages

Description

An art historian shows how many surrealists and their predecessors were steeped in magical ideas that were expressed in their art: the sorcery of Dali, the alchemy of Picasso, the Theosophy of Kandinsky, and the shamanism of Ernst and Carrington.

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1992

Physical description

152 p.; 9 inches

ISBN

0892813733 / 9780892813735
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