Edvard Munch The Savage Eye /anglais - Couverture rigide

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9788293560753: Edvard Munch The Savage Eye /anglais
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 8293560754 ISBN 13 : 9788293560753
Editeur : Munch Museum, 2022

Synopsis

In 1930, Edvard Munch was affected by an eye problem that temporarily blinded him in one eye. During this period, he made a series of abstract and symbolic works inspired by the images the disease produced on his retina. In the book The Savage Eye, these works form a bridge between two radical art movements, Symbolism and Surrealism, both of which explored the idea of the unconscious.

Munch is often associated with Symbolism, a movement in literature and the visual arts that emerged in the 1880s. Influenced by the contemporary interest in spirituality and psychology, and in protest against naturalistic depictions of the real world, Symbolist artists turned their attention towards spirituality and the unconscious.

Some decades later, in 1924, the French poet André Breton wrote his «Manifesto of Surrealism», in which he argued that art should transform society by uniting the worlds of dreams and reality. In order to succeed, wrote Breton, artists must free themselves from rational and moral concerns, and seek to tap into the revolutionary power of the unconscious mind. This would open the way to a new understanding of personal experience and identity.

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À propos de l'auteur

David Lomas was until 2018 Professor of Art History at the University of Manchester. From 2002 until 2007, he was co-director of the AHRB Research Centre for Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies. Among his many publications on Surrealism, the book Simulating the Marvellous: Surrealism, Psychology, Postmodernism (2013) explores Surrealism’s links to late nineteenth-century art, literature and science.
Emil Leth Meilvang holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Oslo. He was co-curator of the exhibition The Savage Eye organised at MUNCH in 2022. Allison Morehead is Associate Professor of Art History and Cultural Studies at Queen’s University, Canada. Morehead has written a number of articles on Edvard Munch and leads the international and interdisciplinary research group ‘Edvard Munch, Modernism, and Medicine’. Gavin Parkinson is Professor of European Modernism at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. He has published numerous essays and articles, mainly on Surrealism. His book Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism: Art History, ‘Sensibility’ and War in the 1960s is forthcoming from Bloomsbury. Lars Toft-Eriksen is Senior Curator at MUNCH. He was curator of the exhibition The Savage Eye organised at MUNCH in 2022. Toft-Eriksen specialises in Scandinavian Surrealism and holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Oslo. Dr Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is the author of The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis (Routledge 2011) and Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis (Columbia 2018).

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

In 1930, Edvard Munch was affected by an eye problem that temporarily blinded him in one eye. During this period, he made a series of abstract and symbolic works inspired by the images the disease produced on his retina. In the book The Savage Eye, these works form a bridge between two radical art movements, Symbolism and Surrealism, both of which explored the idea of the unconscious.

Munch is often associated with Symbolism, a movement in literature and the visual arts that emerged in the 1880s. Influenced by the contemporary interest in spirituality and psychology, and in protest against naturalistic depictions of the real world, Symbolist artists turned their attention towards spirituality and the unconscious.

Some decades later, in 1924, the French poet André Breton wrote his «Manifesto of Surrealism», in which he argued that art should transform society by uniting the worlds of dreams and reality. In order to succeed, wrote Breton, artists must free themselves from rational and moral concerns, and seek to tap into the revolutionary power of the unconscious mind. This would open the way to a new understanding of personal experience and identity.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Munch Museum
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
8293560754
ISBN 13 
9788293560753
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
316
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