Surrealism and the Gothic: Castles of the Interior

ISBN-13: 9780367735890 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str.

Neil Matheson

Opis

Surrealism and the Gothic argues for the determinative influence of the gothic – of the gothic novel itself and of ideas strongly associated with the gothic (insanity, incarceration, the ‘accursed outsider’, magic, etc.) – upon both the formation and subsequent direction of the surrealist movement.

Spis treści

Contents

Preface

List of abbreviations

List of figures

Introduction: ‘the start of a venture’

Ch.1 Crossing the Bridge: Surrealism between dream and reality

Ch.2 From the Castle to the Street: Fantômas and the re-enchantment of modern urban life

Ch.3 Gothic Psychology and the ‘humid backroom of Spiritualism’

Ch.4 The Theatre of Blood: Breton and the psychiatrists

Ch.5 Dark Angel of Surrealism: Artaud, electroshock and black magic

Ch.6 Heritage of the Accursed: Magic and occultism in wartime and postwar Surrealism

Ch.7 Return to the Castle: Transgression and Sadean violence in the postwar era

Conclusion: gothic surrealism and the mutation of inner space

Index

O autorze

Neil Matheson is Senior Lecturer in Theory and Criticism of Photography at the University of Westminster, publishing widely on surrealism, photography and contemporary art. Publications include The Sources of Surrealism (2006), joint-editorship of The Machine and the Ghost (2013) and recent essays on Magritte, Ithell Colquhoun and on spirit photography.