Enchanted Ground: André Breton, Modernism and the Surrealist Appraisal of Fin-De-Siècle Painting

by Gavin Parkinson

Enchanted Ground is about the challenge to modernist criticism by Surrealist writers-mainly Andr Breton but also Louis Aragon, Pierre Mabille, Ren Magritte, Charles Estienne, Ren Huyghe and others-who viewed the same artists in terms of magic, occultism, precognition, alchemy and esotericism generally. It introduces the history of the ways in which those artists who came after Impressionism-Paul C zanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georges...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501375644
• ISBN13: 9781501375644
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 376 Pages