Enchanted Ground

Andre Breton, Modernism and the Surrealist Appraisal of Fin-de-Siecle Painting

By: Gavin Parkinson

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Hardcover | 17 May 2018

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Enchanted Ground is about the challenge to modernist criticism by Surrealist writers-mainly André Breton but also Louis Aragon, Pierre Mabille, René Magritte, Charles Estienne, René Huyghe and others-who viewed the same artists in terms of magic, occultism, precognition, alchemy and esotericism generally.

It introduces the history of the ways in which those artists who came after Impressionism-Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh-became canonical in the 20th century through the broad approaches we now call modernist or formalist (by critics and curators such as Alfred H. Barr, Roger Fry, Robert Goldwater, Clement Greenberg, John Rewald and Robert L. Herbert), and then unpacks chapter-by-chapter, for the first time in a single volume, the Surrealist positions on the same artists.

To this end, it contributes to new strains of scholarship on Surrealism that exceed the usual bounds of the 1920s and 1930s and that examine the fascination within the movement with magic.

About the Author

Gavin Parkinson is Professor of Modern Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK.

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Gavin Parkinson had the novel idea to reconsider the canonical figures of late nineteenth century French painting as they appear within the discourse of Surrealism: C©zanne or Gauguin through Breton or Dal. His gambit pays off brilliantly. He ferrets out a shadow history of French modernism, tracking long-lost interpretive metaphors that shift from positive to negative and back again. The surrealist alternative to traditional criticism generates an unfamiliar constellation of cultural significance. From out of its obscurity, Parkinson reveals the "mythic, poetic or magic resonanceâ ? of the practice otherwise known as modernism.
Richard Shiff, Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art and Director of Center for the Study of Modernism, University of Texas at Austin, USA

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