Esra Plumer

Unica Zurn

Art, Writing and Post-War Surrealism

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Produktbeschreibung

Diagnosed with schizophrenia in the 1950s, writer and artist Unica Zürn produced a wealth of remarkable textual and visual material while in psychiatric institutions across Germany and France. While Zürn is often discussed in relation to her partner, the controversial artist Hans Bellmer, this innovative book moves beyond the familiar model of the overlooked 'woman behind the man' and re-introduces her as a member of the French Surrealist group. In the first text on Unica Zürn in English, Esra Plumer presents Zürn's life and work in light of the artist's individual experiences of the Second World War, post-war Surrealism and mental illness, at the same time revealing wider aspects of her artistic practice in relation to her contemporaries. Plumer also reveals how the techniques of anagrams and automatism (writing and drawing methods designed to unlock the subconscious mind) form the pillars of Zürn's artistic creative output, which carry her work into the wider theoretical circles of psychoanalytic theory and post-structuralist thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 138mm x 216mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9781350296954
• ISBN-10: 1350296953
• Artikelnr.: 63297514

Autorenporträt

Esra Plumer is Assistant Professor of Art History at the Arkin University of Creative Arts and Design, Cyprus. She completed her PhD on the work of Unica Zürn and her development of the technique of automatism as an artistic strategy at the University of Nottingham. Her wider research focuses on 20th-century modernist narratives, with an extensive background in the history of psychoanalysis and psychiatric treatment methods. Other publications include monographic accounts of Hans Bellmer, Robert Desnos and contemporary Cypriot art and artists.

Inhaltsangabe

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