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Representations of the Dreaming Mind in Nineteenth-Century French Art, Rachael Alyson Love

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During the nineteenth century, philosophic and popular interest in dreams and the unconscious increased dramatically. Simultaneously, artists and writers increasingly recognized the immense creative impulses that resided within their dreams and began to explore ways in which dream elements, such as free-association, sensory mixing, and metamorphosis of form, could be incorporated into their artistic output, including visual art and literature. Dreams, due to their inherent irrationality, were at odds with the ideologies of the Enlightenment, a belief which remained fashionable during this time but whose popularity was beginning to wane. Artists of the emerging Romantic period, on the contrary, found the unconscious immensely appealing due to its ambiguity and irrational nature. This study seeks to explore the development of dream representation in art over the course of the nineteenth century, from a formulaic depiction to one which relied on a new kind of visual language steeped in personal emotive content used to express the artists' intention. This goal is achieved by looking at the dream theories of Romantic and Enlightenment philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer, Eduard Von Hartmann, and Voltaire, popular culture theories of dream interpretation before Freud, identifying and analyzing the external forces that can influence one's unconscious, including hashish, synesthesia, and memory, and finally, a visual comparison of a variety of artworks that illustrate the dream or include dream elements, including an in-depth look at French artists J.J. Grandville and Victor Hugo, who developed unique and innovative techniques for expressing their individual dream-content, and instrumental in the further exploration and development of dream-work
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eng
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1 online resource (123 pages)
Note
  • "A thesis in Art History."
  • Advisor: Frances Connelly
  • Vita
Contents
  • Introduction
  • Irrationality and the Age of Reason: philosophical and popular perspectives of the dreaming mind
  • Reality of the dream: elements of the dream and modes of perception
  • Visualizing the unconscious: representation of the dream-state
  • Conclusions
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Representations of the Dreaming Mind in Nineteenth-Century French Art
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Representations of the Dreaming Mind in Nineteenth-Century French Art
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Rachael Alyson Love
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Language
eng
Summary
During the nineteenth century, philosophic and popular interest in dreams and the unconscious increased dramatically. Simultaneously, artists and writers increasingly recognized the immense creative impulses that resided within their dreams and began to explore ways in which dream elements, such as free-association, sensory mixing, and metamorphosis of form, could be incorporated into their artistic output, including visual art and literature. Dreams, due to their inherent irrationality, were at odds with the ideologies of the Enlightenment, a belief which remained fashionable during this time but whose popularity was beginning to wane. Artists of the emerging Romantic period, on the contrary, found the unconscious immensely appealing due to its ambiguity and irrational nature. This study seeks to explore the development of dream representation in art over the course of the nineteenth century, from a formulaic depiction to one which relied on a new kind of visual language steeped in personal emotive content used to express the artists' intention. This goal is achieved by looking at the dream theories of Romantic and Enlightenment philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer, Eduard Von Hartmann, and Voltaire, popular culture theories of dream interpretation before Freud, identifying and analyzing the external forces that can influence one's unconscious, including hashish, synesthesia, and memory, and finally, a visual comparison of a variety of artworks that illustrate the dream or include dream elements, including an in-depth look at French artists J.J. Grandville and Victor Hugo, who developed unique and innovative techniques for expressing their individual dream-content, and instrumental in the further exploration and development of dream-work
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1985-
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Love, Rachael Alyson
Degree
M.A.
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(Department of Art and Art History).
Dissertation year
2019.
Granting institution
University of Missouri-Kansas City,
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illustrations
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no index present
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non fiction
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  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
  • theses
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1953-
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Connelly, Frances S.
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  • Grandville, J. J
  • Hugo, Victor
  • Dreams in art
  • Art, French
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Representations of the Dreaming Mind in Nineteenth-Century French Art, Rachael Alyson Love
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Note
  • "A thesis in Art History."
  • Advisor: Frances Connelly
  • Vita
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not applicable
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-122)
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online resource
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  • cr
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rdacarrier
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black and white
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent
Contents
Introduction -- Irrationality and the Age of Reason: philosophical and popular perspectives of the dreaming mind -- Reality of the dream: elements of the dream and modes of perception -- Visualizing the unconscious: representation of the dream-state -- Conclusions
Control code
1134989818
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource (123 pages)
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one file format
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online
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mixed
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computer
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rdamedia
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  • c
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illustrations.
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not applicable
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remote
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(OCoLC)1134989818
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  • The full text of the thesis is available as an Adobe Acrobat .pdf file; Adobe Acrobat Reader required to view the file
  • Mode of access: World Wide Web
Label
Representations of the Dreaming Mind in Nineteenth-Century French Art, Rachael Alyson Love
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • "A thesis in Art History."
  • Advisor: Frances Connelly
  • Vita
Antecedent source
not applicable
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-122)
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
black and white
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction -- Irrationality and the Age of Reason: philosophical and popular perspectives of the dreaming mind -- Reality of the dream: elements of the dream and modes of perception -- Visualizing the unconscious: representation of the dream-state -- Conclusions
Control code
1134989818
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (123 pages)
File format
one file format
Form of item
online
Level of compression
mixed
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations.
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1134989818
System details
  • The full text of the thesis is available as an Adobe Acrobat .pdf file; Adobe Acrobat Reader required to view the file
  • Mode of access: World Wide Web

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