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Surrealist Sorcery: Objects, Theories and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement (2023)
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Often regarded as an artistic movement of interwar Paris, Surrealism comprised an international community of artists, writers, and intellectuals who have aspired to change the conditions of life itself over the course of the past century. Consisting... Read More about Surrealist Sorcery: Objects, Theories and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement.

Demonic Surrealism in Bucharest: Revolutionary Nihilism in the Writings and Objects of Gherasim Luca, 1939-1945 (2023)
Journal Article

This article explores the wartime works of Gherasim Luca and the Romanian surrealists during the 1940s, and considers how surrealist discourse was idiosyncratically reconfigured around the central themes of demons and black magic. Hermetically sealed... Read More about Demonic Surrealism in Bucharest: Revolutionary Nihilism in the Writings and Objects of Gherasim Luca, 1939-1945.

Oceanic metamorphoses: Easter Island, Paul Gauguin and “magic art” through the eyes of the surrealists (2019)
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During the 20th century the French surrealist group evinced a long-standing interest in Pacific culture, spanning from their early exhibitions of the 1920s to their later writings of the postwar period. The group’s intellectual investment in the Paci... Read More about Oceanic metamorphoses: Easter Island, Paul Gauguin and “magic art” through the eyes of the surrealists.

Supernatural Beings, Shamans and Dream-places: Jules Monnerot and the Native American Touchstones of Surrealism’s Mythological Realignment, 1939-1945 (2018)
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By 1942, a considerable number of the Parisian surrealist group had resettled in the U. S. after having fled the conflict in Europe. Though sometimes regarded as a hiatus in surrealist activities, or in some accounts even the death-knell of Surrealis... Read More about Supernatural Beings, Shamans and Dream-places: Jules Monnerot and the Native American Touchstones of Surrealism’s Mythological Realignment, 1939-1945.

Crystalline Thought: Alchemy and “Visionary Mineralogy” in the Writings of André Breton (2016)
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