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Julien Bogousslavsky - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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neurology and Surrealism andre breton and joseph babinski
Brain, 2012Co-Authors: J Haan, P R Koehler, Julien BogousslavskyAbstract:Before he became the initiator of the surrealist movement, Andre Breton (1896-1966) studied medicine and worked as a student in several hospitals and as a stretcher bearer at the front during World War I. There he became interested in psychiatric diseases such as hysteria and psychosis, which later served as a source of inspiration for his surrealist writings and thoughts, in particular on automatic writing. Breton worked under Joseph Babinski at La Pitie, nearby La Salpetriere, and became impressed by the 'sacred fever' of the famous neurologist. In this article, we describe the relationship between Breton and Babinski and try to trace back whether not only Breton's psychiatric, but also his neurological experiences, have influenced Surrealism. We hypothesize that Breton left medicine in 1920 partly as a consequence of his stay with Babinski.
Gavin Parkinson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Surrealism art and modern science relativity quantum mechanics epistemology
2008Co-Authors: Gavin ParkinsonAbstract:During the same period that Surrealism originated and flourished between the wars, great advances were being made in the field of physics. This book offers the first full history, analysis and interpretation of Surrealism's engagement with the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, and its reception of the philosophical consequences of those two major turning points in our understanding of the physical world. After surveying the revolution in physics in the early twentieth century and the discoveries of Planck, Bohr, Einstein, Schrodinger, and others, Gavin Parkinson explores the diverse uses of physics by individuals in and around the Surrealist group in Paris. In so doing, he offers exciting new readings of the art and writings of such key figures of the Surrealist milieu as Andre Breton, Georges Bataille, Salvador Dali, Roger Caillois, Max Ernst, and Tristan Tzara.
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Surrealism and quantum mechanics dispersal and fragmentation in art life and physics
Science in Context, 2004Co-Authors: Gavin ParkinsonAbstract:ArgumentBy the time the members of the Surrealist group had fled Paris and dispersed at the beginning of World War II, they had taken account of quantum mechanics and were seeking various ways of assimilating its findings into Surrealist theory. This can be detected in writings issuing from the Surrealist milieu as early as the late 1920s. However, while writers and thinkers outside the field of physics swiftly expressed their awareness of the epistemological crisis brought about by quantum mechanics, Surrealism's artists began to conscript the concepts and imagery of modern physics into their work only at the end of the 1930s. Focusing on two “second generation” Surrealist painters, the Chilean Roberto Matta and the Viennese Wolfgang Paalen, this article discusses the peculiar difficulties faced by artists in finding a language for the “new reality” revealed by the physicists, and argues that the relocation of Surrealism in a discursive field which includes quantum physics discloses the rationale behind its artists' shift to a semi-abstract language.
J Haan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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neurology and Surrealism andre breton and joseph babinski
Brain, 2012Co-Authors: J Haan, P R Koehler, Julien BogousslavskyAbstract:Before he became the initiator of the surrealist movement, Andre Breton (1896-1966) studied medicine and worked as a student in several hospitals and as a stretcher bearer at the front during World War I. There he became interested in psychiatric diseases such as hysteria and psychosis, which later served as a source of inspiration for his surrealist writings and thoughts, in particular on automatic writing. Breton worked under Joseph Babinski at La Pitie, nearby La Salpetriere, and became impressed by the 'sacred fever' of the famous neurologist. In this article, we describe the relationship between Breton and Babinski and try to trace back whether not only Breton's psychiatric, but also his neurological experiences, have influenced Surrealism. We hypothesize that Breton left medicine in 1920 partly as a consequence of his stay with Babinski.
Dufficy Rory - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Dream-work: Surrealism and Revolutionary Subjectivity in André Breton and Georges Bataille
'The University of Sydney Library', 2021Co-Authors: Dufficy RoryAbstract:This paper explores a polemic between André Breton and Georges Bataille around the question of the politics of the avant-garde. Focussing on texts composed in the late 1920s, principally Breton’s Second Manifesto of Surrealism and Bataille’s ‘The “Old Mole” and the Prefix Sur in the Words Surhomme and Surrealist’, this paper argues that in examining this debate around matter and material, it is possible to extract two distinct conceptions of the places of subjectivity and revolution in avant-garde aesthetics. While Breton wishes to separately define the idealist aesthetic projects of Surrealism and the materialist project for revolution, Bataille argues that a commitment to that materialist project requires a similarly materialist aesthetics
Martínez García Sonia - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Creación de un álbum infantil con la temática de los sueños. Los sueños de Leila
2020Co-Authors: Martínez García SoniaAbstract:Resumen (español) Este TFM, de carácter principalmente práctico, se centra en la realización de un álbum ilustrado infantil con la temática de los sueños como idea principal. En el siguiente proyecto se realiza un estudio de la temática de los sueños en los álbumes ilustrados, la importancia de los personajes en las historias y el desarrollo de la imaginación y creatividad en los niños. Para la representación de los sueños se hace un estudio de álbumes movidos por el Surrealismo como inspiración para realizar las ilustraciones basadas en sueños. La parte práctica de este trabajo consiste en la realización de un álbum ilustrado donde una niña viaja por sus sueños y en uno de ellos consigue vencer uno de sus miedos a través de la imaginación.Abstract (inglés): This mainly practical TFM focuses on the realization of a children’s illustrated album with the theme of dreams as the main idea. In the following project, a study is made of the theme of dreams in picture books, the importance of characters in stories and the development of imagination and creativity in children. For the representation of dreams a study of albums moved by Surrealism is made as inspiration to make the illustrations based on dreams. The practical part of this work consists of making an illustrated album where a girl travels through her dreams and in one of them she manages to overcome one of her fears through her imagination
