Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism

Origins, Magic, and Secret Societies

Szerző: Patrick Lepetit

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Inner Traditions Bear and Company

Elérhetőség: Utánnyomás

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Not merely an artistic or literary movement as many believe, the surrealists rejected the labels of...

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Szerző

Patrick Lepetit

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2014

oldal

512

EAN

9781620551752

ISBN

1620551756

Enbook ID

05152836

Kiadó

Inner Traditions Bear and Company

Súly

736

Méretek

152 x 230 x 27

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Not 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 unexplored regions of the mind and recover lost "psychic" and magical powers. They used creative expression as the vehicle to attain what Andre Breton called the "supreme point," the point at which all opposites cease to be perceived as contradictions. This supreme point is found at the heart of all esoteric doctrines, including the Great Work of alchemy, and enables communication with higher states of being. Drawing on an extensive range of writings by the surrealists and those in their circle of influence, Patrick Lepetit shows how the surrealists employed mythology, gnostic principles, tarot, voodoo, and alchemy not simply as reference points but as significant elements of their ongoing investigations into the fundamental nature of consciousness. He provides many specific examples of esoteric influence among the surrealists, such as how Picasso's famous Demoiselles d'Avignon was originally titled The Bath of the Philosophers, how painter Victor Brauner drew from his father's spiritualist vocation as well as the Kabbalah and tarot, and how doctor and surrealist author Pierre Mabille was a Freemason focused on finding initiatory paths where "it is possible to feel a new system connecting man with the universe." Lepetit casts new light on the connection between key figures of the movement and the circle of adepts gathered around Fulcanelli. He also explores the relationship between surrealists and Freemasonry, Martinists, and the Elect Cohen as well as the Grail mythos and the Arthurian brotherhood.

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