Enchanted Ground: André Breton, Modernism and the Surrealist Appraisal of Fin-De-Siècle Painting (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781501337253)

Enchanted Ground is about the challenge to modernist criticism by Surrealist writers - mainly Andr Breton but also Louis Aragon, Pierre Mabille, Ren Magritte, Charles Estienne, Ren Huyghe and others - who viewed the same artists in terms of magic, occultism, precognition, alchemy and esotericism generally. It introduces the history of the ways in which those artists who came after Impressionism - Paul C zanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh - became canonical in the 20th century through the broad approaches we now call modernist or formalist (by critics and curators such as Alfred H. Barr, Roger Fry, Robert Goldwater, Clement Greenberg, John Rewald and Robert L. Herbert), and then unpacks chapter-by-chapter, for the first time in a single volume, the Surrealist positions on the same artists. To this end, it contributes to new strains of scholarship on Surrealism that exceed the usual bounds of the 1920s and 1930s and that examine the fascination within the movement with magic.

Author: Gavin Parkinson
ISBN-10: 1501337254
ISBN-13: 9781501337253
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Language: English
Published: 05/17/2018
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.00d