The Look of a Female (Medium) in The Public Bird of Milan Dedinac
- Autores: Milanka Todić, Bojan Jović
- Localización: Knjizevna istorija = Literary History, ISSN 0350-6428, Nº. 159, 2016, págs. 79-97
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The paper points to the origin and possible specific sources of one of the three illustrations from Milan Dedinac’s poem The Public bird (Javna ptica) - the famous image of a “young woman with a veil,” whose authorship has so far been unknown or attributed to the poet. It clarifies the circumstances of the becoming of a series of images of “ectoplasmatic materialisations” produced in March 1918 by the famous French medium Eva C. The analysis of the relationship of image and text in hybrid works of (Belgrade) surrealism, determines the trajectory that leads from The Public bird to the works of Albert von Schrenck-Notzing and Gustave Gelley, from Parisian spiritualistic sessions to the Metropolitan Museum and from the writings of Swedenborg, Balzac and Strindberg back to The Public bird of Dedinac
