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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"Surrealist"”.
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SURREALIST CASTLE CULTURE: GOTHIC TRACES IN SURREALIST AESTHETICS
… examined why the Gothic novel appealed to the Surrealist sensibility. In particular, the neo-Gothic referents in Surrealist visual art have been largely ignored. The clearest connection between Surrealism and the Gothic novel is found within Surrealist leader André Breton's essay “Limits Not …
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Life Experience: <em>Freddy Got Fingered</em> As Neo-Surrealist Masterpiece
… the film truly deserves to be respected as a neo-surrealist masterpiece. A major studio producing an avant-garde film as bizarre as <em>Freddy Got Fingered</em> is rare and the fact that it was even made is an accomplishment unto itself. This thesis will closely analyze the film scene-by-scene and …
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Les pas perdus: Images of Feet and Shoes in Surrealist Art
<p>Although feet and shoes appear throughout surrealist visual art, their significance within surrealist theory has not been studied as thoroughly as other familiar themes of surrealist art, such as the eye or the hat. The purpose of this project is to recover feet and shoes from their lowly …
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Image, text and the female body : René Magritte and the surrealist publications
… our culture has been so easily able to strip surrealist images of their political content and subsume them back into mainstream culture for use in those very categories of social practice which Surrealism wanted to eradicate. The reincorporation of surrealist works has been especially …
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Joyce Mansour's poetics: A discourse of plurality by a second-generation surrealist poet
… 2 provides pertinent information about the surrealist movement and its founder, Andre Breton. It also considers the role of women and their artistic contribution to the movement. Chapter 3 expounds on the uniqueness of Mansour's assertive voice via the technique of poetic-collage, and …
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From Surrealist Film to Surrealism in Film (Surrealism in the 20th Century Commercial Cinema)
"Chapter five, ""Andre Delvaux or What Surrealism Could Have Been,"" looks at Delvaux's exploration of the dialectic real---imaginary and the Proustian dimension of his films. Chapter VI, ""Surrealism in Contemporary French Cinema,"" explores the dispersion of Surrealism in contemporary French …
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Living Paint: Tempera and Knowledge in the Surrealist Art of Leonora Carrington, Sylvia Fein, and Gerrie Gutmann
… paint in the tempera painting practice of three surrealist artists working in Mexico and the United States during and after World War II: the British-born Mexican artist Leonora Carrington (1917–2011), and the American artists Sylvia Fein (1919–2024) and Gerrie Gutmann (1921–69). The idea of …
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Concealment and revelation: Surrealism's contribution to 20th century portraiture
The aim of the thesis is to consider the surrealist portrait and whether it has added to an understanding of portraiture as a genre. It uses Richard Brilliant's Portraiture (1991) and Shearer West's Portraiture (2004) as points of reference, using the limited examples of surrealist portraiture …
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Out of sight: surrealism and photography in 1930s Japan
"There is not a country in the world where the Surrealist voice found a faster response than Japan. From its origin (1924, date of the first Manifesto), until the war, there was no Surrealist activity in Europe that was not almost immediately reflected upon.", Breton, André ([1959] 2008). En guise …
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When Reality Was Surreal: Lee Miller's World War II War Correspondence for Vogue
… for Vogue magazine. Miller was trained as a surrealist photographer by Man Ray, and her wartime work, both photographic and written, is indicative of a combination of journalism and surrealism. This thesis examines Lee Miller's war correspondence within the context of Vogue magazine, …
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Situace surrealistického subjektu
… Diploma thesis Šimon Svěrák Situation of the Surrealist Subject (abstract) 2012 thesis supervisor: prof. PhDr. Vlastimil Zuska, CSc. Abstract This thesis focuses on the situation of a substantial subject in the historical development of the surrealist experience and confronts it with our …
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Diving to The Cinema Beneath the Lake: a novel as immersive, synthetic-magical exploration of the surrealist prose of Claude Cahun, Ithell Colquhoun and Leonora Carrington
… (simulation, impersonation, imitation) in the surrealist prose of Claude Cahun, Ithell Colquhoun and Leonora Carrington. It evaluates mimicry both as a feminist critical technique and as a form of camouflage or evasion which provides space and opportunity within their prose for reflection and …
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Surrealism since the Second World War with particular reference to surrealism in Czechoslovakia
… of this misrepresentation are cited and the surrealist perspective given. The theme is developed by outlining the post-war history of Surrealism in France. This is not the main area of research, but is contextually important to what follows. The main section is concerned with a critical …
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A Foreign Mirror: Intertexts with Surrealism in Twentieth-Century U. S. Poetries
… interest in surrealism as an attraction to the surrealist emphasis on reconciling binaries. This emphasis allows American poets a convenient frame through which to confront the difficult questions of place and nation that arise as the U. S. position in the field of world literature shifts from …
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Defamiliarising the Familiar: The Distorted Body in Photography
… the motivations and contextual reasoning for why surrealist and contemporary photographers distort the human body, the technical considerations of photographic distortions have been under-represented in photographic studies. This research is critical of the lack of understanding such techniques. …
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Planting the Seeds of Surreality, Cultivating the Dynamism of a Nation: Winston Miranda and the Rhetoric of Resilience in Post-Revolutionary Nicaraguan Art
Winston Miranda, a surrealist painter from the historic capital of Granada, Nicaragua, is creating a contemporary, post-revolutionary path that is distinct from yet informed by its revolutionary antecedents. In essence, his art is a literal and figurative bridge between war and healing. Critical …
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The Alchemist of the Surreal and the Uncanny Valley: Jan Švankmajer, the puppet and eerie animation
Jan Švankmajer, a militant Surrealist and member of the Czech Surrealist group, whose work is influenced by the Czechoslovakian culture and tradition, employs the notion of the uncanny in his films in mixing and contrasting ways and animating the inanimate is a central element. Freud’s The Uncanny, …
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The Hidden Power of Images: An Allegory of Chaos and Performance in the Digital Age
… images of the past and present juxtaposed in a surrealist landscape. Through the use of images in the news, entertainment, advertising, and images within the home, I depict how the problems of the past bleed into our perceptions of the present. I find that this cycle of problem inheritance …
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Joyce Mansour's <i>Ça</i> and <i>Histoires nocives</i>: translations and critical interpretations
… most distinguished and singular adherents to the Surrealist credo in literature is the contemporary French writer and poet Joyce Mansour, who, by virtue of her extensive literary production has unquestionably become one of the most widely read creative figures within the Surrealist mode. The …
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