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- Book Title
- Unica Zürn : Art, Writing and Postwar Surrealism
- ISBN
- 9781784530365
- Publication Name
- Unica Zürn : Art, Writing and Post-War Surrealism
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris & Company, The Limited
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Series
- International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 16.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Diagnosed with schizophrenia in the 1950s, German writer and artist Unica Zurn produced a wealth of remarkable textual and visual material within psychiatric institutions across Germany and France. While Zurn is often discussed in relation to her partner, the controversial artist Hans Bellmer, this innovative book moves beyond the familiar model of the overlooked 'significant other' and re-introduces her as a member of the French Surrealist group. This is the first monograph on the life and work of the Unica Zurn in English. Esra Plumer presents Zurn's life and work in light of the artist's individual experiences with WWII, Post-war Surrealism and mental illness, at the same time revealing wider aspects of her artistic practice in relation to her contemporaries. She also reveals how the techniques of anagrams and automatism (writing and drawing methods designed to unlock the subconscious mind) form the pillars of Zurn's artistic creative output, which carry her work into the wider theoretical circles of psychoanalytic theory and post-structuralist thought.
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Publisher
I. B. Tauris & Company, The Limited
ISBN-10
1784530360
ISBN-13
9781784530365
eBay Product ID (ePID)
212731250
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Unica Zürn : Art, Writing and Post-War Surrealism
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Series
International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
16.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Nd588
Reviews
The first significant and sustained English language study of the writer and artist that attempts to explicitly remove her from Bellmer's leaden shadow and show her as significant in her own right... The result of Plumer's careful and exhaustive scholarship is an image both of Zürn as an individual separate from the better known Bellmer, as well as her body of work as a distinct and unique contribution to postwar arts and literature. Plumer's book is itself a superb and groundbreaking contribution to scholarship on Zürn and postwar Surrealism generally. In particular, Plumer provides great insight and methodological clarity into how to examine the relationship between mental illness and artistic creation without reducing one to the other, an activity that has, unfortunately, been the standard approach for so long., "The first significant and sustained English language study of the writer and artist that attempts to explicitly remove her from Bellmer's leaden shadow and show her as significant in her own right... The result of Plumer's careful and exhaustive scholarship is an image both of Zürn as an individual separate from the better known Bellmer, as well as her body of work as a distinct and unique contribution to postwar arts and literature. Plumer's book is itself a superb and groundbreaking contribution to scholarship on Zürn and postwar Surrealism generally. In particular, Plumer provides great insight and methodological clarity into how to examine the relationship between mental illness and artistic creation without reducing one to the other, an activity that has, unfortunately, been the standard approach for so long." -- Journal of Modern Literature, 'Esra Plumer's illuminating study swiftly escapes the claws of psychobiography. Instead, she opts for an informative account of Unica Zürn's oeuvre (both visual and textual) as an outcome of a conscious artistic strategy, at times infused by her mental illness, rather than a product of such illness per se. What emerges is a well-overdue portrait of an exceptional artist who was far more than just la femme de Bellmer, as demonstrated in Plumer's astute analysis of the complexities of artistic and personal collaboration.', 'Esra Plumer's comprehensive study of the literary and artistic works of Unica Zürn is highly informative. She presents Zürn as an autonomous artist and also reviews her early period in Berlin. One particular merit is that it at last enables the English-speaking world to share an insight into the surrealistic oeuvre of an exceptional German-French artist.'
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword by Mary Ann Caws Introduction 1. Beginnings of Change 2. Exhibitions and Exposure 3. ' Femme de Bellmer ': Critical Reception from 1984 to 2014 4. Anagrams 5. Automatism after 1945 6. Notes on Unica Zürn's The Man of Jasmine and Other Narratives Epilogue Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2015
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
European / German, History / Contemporary (1945-), Individual Artists / Monographs, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
Dewey Decimal
759.3
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Art, Literary Criticism
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