Surrealism and the Occult: Shamanism, Magic, Alchemy, and the Birth of an Artistic Movement

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By Nadia Choucha

Publisher : Inner Traditions/Bear & Company

ABOUT Nadia Choucha

Nadia Choucha
A writer and frequent lecturer on art and magic, Nadia Choucha holds a master's degree in art history from Edinburgh University and is currently researching the surrealists for her Ph.D. at Essex University.

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An art historian shows how many surrealists and their predecessors were steeped in magical ideas that were expressed in their art: the sorcery of Dali, the alchemy of Picasso, the Theosophy of Kandinsky, and the shamanism of Ernst and Carrington.