Surrealism, Occultism and Politics In Search of the Marvellous - Studies in Surrealism
This week's book of the week features an essay by Plymouth College of Art Dean for Media, Judith Noble, where she discusses the work of Maya Deren.
Examines the relationship between occultism and Surrealism, specifically exploring the reception and appropriation of occult thought, motifs, tropes and techniques by Surrealist artists and writers in Europe and the Americas, from the 1920s through the 1960s. Its central focus is the specific use of occultism as a site of political and social resistance, ideological contestation, subversion and revolution. Additional focus is placed on the ways occultism was implicated in Surrealist discourses.
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