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Index
Cover Page
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Plates
List of Contributors
Introduction: In Search of the Marvellous
PART I Alternative Modes of Knowledge
1 Spiritual Surrealists: Séances, Automatism, and the Creative Unconscious
2 The Vertiginous Pursuit of the Grand Jeu: Experimental Metaphysics, Paramnesia, and Creative Involution
3 Palmistry as Portraiture: Dr. Charlotte Wolff and the Surrealists
4 Occulted Un-Knowing: Bataillean Approaches to the Sacred in Gellu Naum’s Ceasornicăria Taus and Alejo Carpentier’s El Siglo de las Luces
PART II Myth, Magic and the Search for Re-Enchantment
5 Melusina Triumphant: Matriarchy and the Politics of Anti-Fascist Mythmaking in André Breton’s Arcane 17 (1945)
6 Esotericism and Surrealist Cinema: Wilhelm Freddie’s Films and the New Myth
7 Disenchanted Ground, or Antonin Artaud, Vincent van Gogh and Magic in 1947
8 Kurt Seligmann, Surrealism and the Occult
PART III Female Artists, Gender and the Occult
9 The Quest for the Goddess: Matriarchy, Surrealism and Gender Politics in the Work of Ithell Colquhoun and Leonora Carrington
10 “On the True Exercise of Witchcraft” in the Work of Remedios Varo
11 Clear Dreaming: Maya Deren, Surrealism and Magic
12 Harbingers of the New Age: Surrealism, Women and the Occult in the United States
Bibliography
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