Screen In Surrealist Art And Thought

An Interrogation Of The Notion Of Space In Surrealist Theory And Philosophy, This Study Analyzes The Manifestations Of Space In The Paintings And Writings Done In The Framework Of The Surrealist Movement. Haim Finkelstein Introduces The 'screen' As An Important Spatial Paradigm That Clarifies And Extends The Understanding Of Surrealism As It Unfolds In The 1920s, Exploring The Screen And Layered Depth As Fundamental Structuring Principles Associated With The Representation Of The Mental Space And Of The Internal Processes That Eventually Came To Be Linked With The Surrealist Concept Of Psychic Automatism. Extending The Discussion Of The Concepts At Stake For Surrealist Visual Art Into The Context Of Film, Literature And Criticism, This Study Sheds Light On The Way 'film Thinking' Permeates Surrealist Thought And Aesthetics.