Artists and the dream in nineteenth-century Paris: Towards a prehistory of surrealism STEFANIE HERAEUS (transl. Deborah Laurie Cohen) : (Translated by Deborah Laurie Cohen)

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Artists and the dream in nineteenth-century Paris: Towards a prehistory of surrealism STEFANIE HERAEUS (transl. Deborah Laurie Cohen)

ABSTRACT

Charton, Grandville had speciﬁcally reﬂected on the titles. In contrast to Charton’s titles, he had attempted in his suggestions to focus attention on the mechanisms of dreaming: ‘What will our title be? Metamorphoses in Sleep? Transformations, Deformations, Reformations of Dreams? Chain of Thought in Dreams?’2