The Cult of Elusive Moment and the Transparent Greats: New Myths of Surrealism
Abstract
Every artistic and intellectual movement fights against dominant myths in culture and creates own ones. That statement also applies to surrealism creating the myth of a modern city or the myth of the Transparent Greats which best show the sphere of artists’ fascinations and interests and the essence of their time. They also show a very characteristic creative process marked with a heroic beginning and a bitter ending. The miraculousness, which seemed to be within arm’s reach in the interwar period either peeping from a Paris alley, a municipal baths or from the screen of a second-rate movie theatre hid up inside crystal balls, books of the Occult and alchemical diagrams after WW2.
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Agnieszka Taborskakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Rhode Island School of Design United States
Tłumaczka (m. in. H. Soupeau Ostatnie noce paryskie, 1999). Wykłada w Rhode Island School of Design w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Przygotowuje książkę o surrealistycznej wizji Paryża w filmie i literaturze.
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