The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism: Origins, Magic, and Secret Societies
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Surrealism's occult roots and transmutative artistic visions.
If you're intrigued by the intersection of art and the arcane, "The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism" could cast a spell on you. It unveils the mystic layers beneath surrealist works, tying creative genius to ancient metaphysical practices. For the intellectually curious, it's a treasure trove that fuses historical scholarship with magical exploration, promising to enrich your appreciation for surrealist art in ways you never anticipated.
The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism: Origins, Magic, and Secret Societies
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ISBN: 9781620551752
Authors:
Patrick Lepetit
Publisher: Inner Traditions
Date of Publication: 2014-04-24
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.81
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A profound understanding of the surrealists' connections with alchemists and secret societies and the hermetic aspirations revealed in their works. Explains 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 powers. 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 André 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
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