Surrealism and the Occult: Shamanism, Magic, Alchemy, and the Birth of an Artistic Movement by Nadia Choucha

Surrealism and the Occult: Shamanism, Magic, Alchemy, and the Birth of an Artistic Movement

Nadia Choucha

152 pages paperback 1991

3 editions

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An art historian shows how many surrealists and their predecessors were steeped in magical ideas that were expressed in their art: the sorcery of Dali, the alchemy of Picasso, the Theosophy of Kandinsky, and the shamanism of Ernst and Carrington.

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