'De la magie blanche la magie noire': 'primitivism', magic, mysticism and the occult in Picasso.

From: Apollo | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Art and artists have long been associated with magic and magicians. discussing the phenomenon of magic in Totem and Taboo (1913), Freud argued that the only discipline in our civilization to have retained something approaching magical practices was the field of artistic illusion:

People speak with justice of the "magic" of art and compare artists to magicians. But the comparison is perhaps more significant than it claims to be. There can be no doubt that art did not begin for art's sake. It worked originally in the service of impulses which are for the most part extinct ...

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