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Simulating the marvellous : psychology - surrealism - postmodernism
- Title
- Simulating the marvellous : psychology - surrealism - postmodernism / David Lomas, with Jeremy Stubbs.
- Author
- Lomas, David
- Publication
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013.
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- Additional Authors
- Stubbs, Jeremy, 1960-
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-386) and index.
- Contents
- Simulation as hysterical muse -- From psychological medicine to surrealism -- surrealism and the Salpêtrière legacy -- Artist-sorcerers : mimicry, magic and hysteria -- A theatre of hysteria : surrealism and the postmodern turn -- Surrealism as simulation -- Automatism, pastiche, simulation -- Simulation and surrealist experiment -- Painting the simulacrum -- Simulacra and the order of mimesis in Dalí and Glenn Brown.
- Call Number
- JQE 14-392
- ISBN
- 9780719088827
- 0719088828
- OCLC
- 799144781
- Author
- Lomas, David.
- Title
- Simulating the marvellous : psychology - surrealism - postmodernism / David Lomas, with Jeremy Stubbs.
- Imprint
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013.
- Description
- xxviii, 396 pages : illustrations, ports ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-386) and index.
- 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.
- Added Author
- Stubbs, Jeremy, 1960-
- Research Call Number
- JQE 14-392