Explores examples of surrealist ghostliness in film, photography, painting, sculpture, and installation art from the 1920s through to the 1990s
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Cinematic Whirl of Man Ray's Ghostly Objects
2. Claude Cahun's Exploration of the Autobiographical Human
3. The Ethnographic Automatism of Brassaï and Dalí's Involuntary Sculptures
4. The Ghostliness in Lee Miller's Egyptian Landscapes
5. Dorothea Tanning's Gothic Ghostliness
6. Francesca Woodman's Ghostly Interior Maps
7. Pierre Alechinsky's Ghostly Palimpsests
8. Susan Hiller's Freudian Ghosts
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Katharine Conley is dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the College of William & Mary and a professor of French and francophone studies and the Edward Tuck Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Emerita at Dartmouth College. The recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, she is the author of several books, including Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life (Nebraska, 2003) and Automatic Woman: The Representation of Woman in Surrealism (Nebraska, 1996).
"Conley's study offers a new theorization of surrealism that
unifies its diverse and multiple iterations and recasts its
chronological limits."—Effie Rentzou, SubStance
"[Surrealist Ghostliness] is an important addition to the
literature on surrealism and modern art, very well written and an
extremely interesting and engaging read."—Rob Harle, Leonardo
Journal
"Conley offers a richly argued discussion, speculative and
articulate, that usefully contributes to our reading of the 'long
Surrealism'."—Robert Radford, Burlington Magazine
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