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Short, Robert. The Age of Gold: Dali, Bunuel, Artaud: Surrealist Cinema. New expanded ed. Los Angeles, Calif.: Solar, 2008.
Robert Short explores the films Un Chien Andalou and L’Age D’or in his book The Age of Gold, written in 2008. This book documents
the themes and images of the films, as well as the theories of Dadaist and Avant-garde films for comparison. This source is very
relevant for my topic due to the depth of research into the two most important surrealist movies. Robert Short is a lecturer at the
University of East Anglia in England. This book is a useful academic reading for anyone interested in surrealist films and theory.
Svacha, Rostislav. Surrealism and Architecture [ed. by] Thomas Mical. Umeeni = the Art 55, no. 6: 510-513, 2007
Rostislav Svacha wrote a book review on Surrealism and Architecture by Thomas Mical, in 2007, claiming that Mical’s collection of
essays about surrealism and architecture, written by many young authors, is not a very thorough book on the subject. Syacha intends
to inform readers of Thomas Mical’s “Surrealism and Architecture” specifically to this claim, as well as researchers interested in
surrealism and architecture. This review was helpful for my thesis topic, in that the article reminded me to question the author’s
expertise and experience.
Vidler, Anthony. Fantasy, the Uncanny and Surrealist Theories of Architecture. Papers of Surrealism Winter, no. 1: 2 (2003)
Anthony Vidler wrote this paper, “Fantasy, the Uncanny and Surrealist Theories of Architecture” in 2003 in attempts to compare the
theory of surrealism with actual ideas of built architecture, as well as architectural theory. Vidler discusses the ideas of the physical
and the mental, as well as the organic and the inorganic. These ideas are very important to my thesis topic. This article is helpful for
anyone interested in surrealism and architecture. Anthony Vidler is a Professor and Dean of the School of Architecture at Cooper
Union, as well as being a historian and theorist of modern and contemporary architecture.
Vidler, Anthony. The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1992.
Anthony Vidler’s book “The Architectural Uncanny” focuses on the subject of the uncanny. The different aspects of the uncanny are
split up into specific essays, such as exile and homelessness. This book, specifically the introduction, was relevant to this thesis due
to it’s connection to surrealism with the uncanny. Anthony Vidler is a Professor and Dean of the School of Architecture at Cooper
Union, as well as being a historian and theorist of modern and contemporary architecture.
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