Reimagining Vision in the Surrealist Cinepoem L'Étoile de mer

Abstract

Abstract:In 1928, artist Man Ray and poet Robert Desnos created the sixteen-minute L'Étoile de mer, an automatic-poem-turned-film noted for its visual experimentation. The cinepoem merges verbal and pictorial ways of seeing to instill in its audience an experience of the haptic, unveiling a new sensory epistemology.