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Unica Zurn: Art, Writing and Post-War Surrealism

by Esra Plumer
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781784530365
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
  • Publisher Imprint: I. B. Tauris & Company
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 192
  • Original Price: GBP 130.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 454 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History / 20th & 21st Century and Individual Artists / Monographs

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.

Plumer, Esra: -

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.

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