Contents
Preface
List of abbreviations
List of figures
Introduction: ‘the start of a venture’
Ch.1 Crossing the Bridge: Surrealism between dream and reality
Ch.2 From the Castle to the Street: Fantômas and the re-enchantment of modern urban life
Ch.3 Gothic Psychology and the ‘humid backroom of Spiritualism’
Ch.4 The Theatre of Blood: Breton and the psychiatrists
Ch.5 Dark Angel of Surrealism: Artaud, electroshock and black magic
Ch.6 Heritage of the Accursed: Magic and occultism in wartime and postwar Surrealism
Ch.7 Return to the Castle: Transgression and Sadean violence in the postwar era
Conclusion: gothic surrealism and the mutation of inner space
Index
Biography
Neil Matheson is Senior Lecturer in Theory and Criticism of Photography at the University of Westminster, publishing widely on surrealism, photography and contemporary art. Publications include The Sources of Surrealism (2006), joint-editorship of The Machine and the Ghost (2013) and recent essays on Magritte, Ithell Colquhoun and on spirit photography.
