The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism: Origins, Magic, and Secret Societies Lepetit Patrick
A profound understanding of the surrealists' connections with alchemists and secret societies and the hermetic aspirations revealed in their worksExplains how surrealist paintings and poems employed…
Specifikacia The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism: Origins, Magic, and Secret Societies Lepetit Patrick
A profound understanding of the surrealists' connections with alchemists and secret societies and the hermetic aspirations revealed in their worksExplains how surrealist paintings and poems employed mythology, gnostic principles, tarot, voodoo, alchemy, and other hermetic sciences to seek out unexplored regions of the mind and recover lost "psychic" and magical powersProvides many examples of esoteric influence in surrealism, such as how Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon was originally titled The Bath of the PhilosophersNot merely an artistic or literary movement as many believe, the surrealists rejected the labels of artist and author bestowed upon them by outsiders, accepting instead the titles of magician, alchemist, or--in the case of Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo--witch. Their paintings, poems, and other works were created to seek out
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