Surrealist Ghostliness

by Katharine Conley

In this study of surrealism and ghostliness, Katharine Conley provides a new, unifying theory of surrealist art and thought based on history and the paradigm of puns and anamorphosis. In Surrealist Ghostliness, Conley discusses surrealism as a movement haunted by the experience of World War I and the repressed ghost of spiritualism. From the perspective of surrealist automatism, this double haunting produced a unifying paradigm of textual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803226594
• ISBN13: 9780803226593
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.6"