Occult Surrealism as “Profane Illumination”: Mina Loy, Leonora Carrington, and Ithell Colquhoun
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DOI: 10.2979/jmodelite.46.1.10
Abstract: Abstract:Walter Benjamin in his 1929 essay “Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia” regarded the supernatural dimension of Parisian surrealism with suspicion: as a “profane” distraction from its more politically engaged aesthetics. Commenting on… read more here.
Keywords: surrealism; mina loy; profane illumination; loy leonora ... See more keywords