Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Art after Impressionism after Surrealism
- 1 Greengrocer, Bricklayer or Seer? Psychoanalysing Paul Cézanne
- 2 Painting as Propaganda and Prophecy: René Magritte and Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- 3 Method and Poetry: Georges Seurat’s Surrealist Dialectic
- 4 Between Dog and Wolf: Georges Seurat, Brassaï and the City of Light
- 5 Civilization, Realism, Abstraction: Paul Gauguin and Surrealism, 1948–53
- 6 Dialectic of Brittany: Paul Gauguin’s ‘Myth’ and Surrealist ‘Celtomania’
- 7 Magic Art, Folklore and Rural Tales in Le Pouldu: André Breton, Paul Gauguin and Charles Filiger
- Epilogue: Disenchanted Ground, or Vincent van Gogh, Antonin Artaud and Magic in 1947
- Coda: On André Breton
- Select Bibliography
- Index