Simulating the marvellous : psychology - surrealism - postmodernism / David Lomas with Jeremy Stubbs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lomas, David.

Contributor:

Stubbs, Jeremy, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surrealism.

Surrealism (Literature).

Subconsciousness in art.

Subconsciousness in literature.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013.

Summary:

This book presents important new research on Surrealism and the culture from which it arose. Offering fresh interpretations of Surrealist art and literature based around the theme of simulation, the book shows, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, that the notion of simulation arose in a number of discrete contexts, in relation to hysteria and war neuroses; more broadly it shadows the emergence of our concept of 'the unconscious'. Acknowledging simulation's relevance to Surrealism, this book argues, radically alters our understanding of the Surrealists' project and the terms in which one gauges its success or failure. It leads one to question the naïve assumption that automatic writing or drawing represent an authentic outpouring of the unconscious and gives renewed significance to a figure such as Salvador Dalí who embraced simulation and made it the basis of his art and aesthetic. Resonances are also explored with postmodern theory and art practice, around the themes of simulation and the simulacrum.

Contents:

I Simulation as hysterical muse 41

1 From psychological medicine to surrealism 47

2 Surrealism and the salpêtrière legacy 79

3 Artist-sorcerers: mimicry, magic and hysteria 118

4 A theatre of hysteria: surrealism and the postmodern turn 150

II Surrealism as simulation 175

5 Automatism, pastiche, simulation 181

6 Simulation and surrealist experiment 213

7 Painting the simulacrum 261

8 Simulacra and the order of mimesis in dalí and glenn brown 299.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780719088827

0719088828

OCLC:

799144781