From archaic fetishism, found objects, dream images and free association, Surrealist artists and writers – such as Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, Meret Oppenheim and Wolfgang Paalen – transformed the ordinary into the extraordinary by deliberately evoking the ambivalence of sacred power. Surrealism and the Sacred traces the conflict between the secular and sacred forces from prehistory and paganism through the Renaissance and the occult revival of the 19th century to the Surrealist movement of the 20th century. Against the tyranny of reason and the European bourgeoisie, Surrealists drew from occultism, Asian religions and mysticism, and psychoanalysis to create an uncanny and creative state of mind that continues to have a profound effect on the modern imagination. This remarkable book challenges conventional assumptions about modern art and its larger meanings in the history of knowledge.
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Celia Rabinovitchis an artist and professor who has written for the Dictionary of Art, C Magazine, and Artweek. Her paintings have been shown in solo exhibitions in Canada, Europe, and the U.S. Previously a Program Director for Fine Arts and Graphic Design at the University of California, Berkeley, Extension, she has also taught at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Syracuse University, the University of Colorado, and Cabrillo College. She earned her Ph.D. in the history of art and religions from McGill University, and her M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She lives in the Bay Area..
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Dr.Rabinovitch has created an exceptional work. She has combined art, religion, psychology, and the occult in a fascinating, hard to put down work. The text reads like a who's-who of the early 20th century. Her expertise and interest are apparent and are combined with a readable style.
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This book attempts to create a new perspective, both deep and wide, of the surrealist movement and the manifestations of the sacred in modern art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By employing the phenomenology of the sacred and the parallel histories of art and religion, Rabinovitch charts the territory between art and religion beyond the historical context of surrealism.
Time then is a place of enchantment where past and present advance or recede as the image strikes our eyes. Then art expresses both history and the experiential time of the artist, which opens to moments that give form to radiant and vital reflections of ourselves.
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This book reignited my passion for sacred mythology.Many questions I've been pondering for years were answered. I highly recommend this provoking book for all those with a deep interest in modern art and culture. Bravo!
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Giorgio de Chirico, André Breton, Manifesto of Surrealism, Max Ernst, Max Mueller, Meret Oppenheim, Marcel Duchamp, Virgin Mary, Kurt Seligmann, Gérard de Nerval, Sigmund Freud, The Idea of the Holy, William Blake, Franz Steiner, Golden Age, Great Mother, Green Spectator, Gustave Moreau, Mircea Eliade, Paul Eluard, René Magritte, Wilfredo Lam, Children of Fire, Les Fleurs du Mal, Middle Ages New!
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Giorgio de Chirico, André Breton, Manifesto of Surrealism, Max Ernst, Max Mueller, Meret Oppenheim, Marcel Duchamp, Virgin Mary, Kurt Seligmann, Gérard de Nerval, Sigmund Freud, The Idea of the Holy, William Blake, Franz Steiner, Golden Age, Great Mother, Green Spectator, Gustave Moreau, Mircea Eliade, Paul Eluard, René Magritte, Wilfredo Lam, Children of Fire, Les Fleurs du Mal, Middle Ages New!
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- The Idea of the Holy by R. Otto on 8 pages
- The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages, Revised and Expanded Edition by Norman Cohn on 5 pages
- Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture by Johan Huizinga on 4 pages
- The Early Chirico (Contemporary Art) by James T. Soby on 4 pages
- The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France - 1885 to World War I by Roger Shattuck on 4 pages
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- On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art by James Elkins in Back Matter
- On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art by James Elkins in Back Matter
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