Ricki O’Rawe
Biographic Data
| ID | 6639764 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ricki O’Rawe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ricki |
| FAMILY NAME | O’Rawe |
| SIGNATURE | O’RAWE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1186-4771 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Re-enchantment of Surrealism: Remedios Varo’s Visionary Artists
The visionary prowess of the artist was established, in both the visual and verbal arts, by the Symbolists in fin-de-siècle France. This article asserts a continuity between the avowed spiritual dimension of their work and the visionary power of surrealist art asserted—despite strong resistance from the centre—by a group of renegade surrealists in the 1920s and beyond. To do so, it explores the representations of artists that Spanish-born Mexican…
Should We Try to Self Remember While Playing Snakes and Ladders?”
Emerging from the Paris surrealist group, the English-born writer and painter Leonora Carrington (England, 1917—Mexico, 2011) was perpetually suspicious of orthodoxy. She often pokes fun at, parodies, and ultimately upsets traditional hierarchies of power. In her work animals impart wisdom, Goddesses loom large, and domestic spaces become sites of occult power. In this article, I investigate Carrington’s suspicion of gurus with claims to esoteric…
Ruedas metafísicas: ‘Personality’ and ‘Essence’ in Remedios Varo’s Paintings
While most critics have noted the profound affinity Remedios Varo felt with the ideas she encountered in the esoteric philosophy of G. I. Gurdjieff and his pupil P. D. Ouspensky, only in recent years have they begun to uncover the extent to which this teaching informed her richly symbolic work. This article will show how Gurdjieff’s views on ‘personality’ and ‘essence’, as outlined in Ouspensky’s exposition of his master’s ideas, In Search of the…
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Ruedas metafísicas: ‘Personality’ and ‘Essence’ in Remedios Varo’s Paintings
While most critics have noted the profound affinity Remedios Varo felt with the ideas she encountered in the esoteric philosophy of G. I. Gurdjieff and his pupil P. D. Ouspensky, only in recent years have they begun to uncover the extent to which this teaching informed her richly symbolic work. This article will show how Gurdjieff’s views on ‘personality’ and ‘essence’, as outlined in Ouspensky’s exposition of his master’s ideas, In Search of the…
Should We Try to Self Remember While Playing Snakes and Ladders?”
Emerging from the Paris surrealist group, the English-born writer and painter Leonora Carrington (England, 1917—Mexico, 2011) was perpetually suspicious of orthodoxy. She often pokes fun at, parodies, and ultimately upsets traditional hierarchies of power. In her work animals impart wisdom, Goddesses loom large, and domestic spaces become sites of occult power. In this article, I investigate Carrington’s suspicion of gurus with claims to esoteric…
The Re-enchantment of Surrealism: Remedios Varo’s Visionary Artists
The visionary prowess of the artist was established, in both the visual and verbal arts, by the Symbolists in fin-de-siècle France. This article asserts a continuity between the avowed spiritual dimension of their work and the visionary power of surrealist art asserted—despite strong resistance from the centre—by a group of renegade surrealists in the 1920s and beyond. To do so, it explores the representations of artists that Spanish-born Mexican…
Art (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Ego Development and Educational Practices (2 works) · Painting (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Power (physics (2 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)