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automatismMethod of painting or drawing in which conscious control over the movement of the hand is suppressed so that the subconscious mind may take over. For some Abstract Expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock, the automatic process encompassed the entire process of composition. The Surrealists, having once achieved an interesting image or form by automatic or chance means, exploited the technique with fully conscious purpose. See also Abstract Expressionism, action painting, Surrealism. automatism [ȯ′täm·ə‚tiz·əm] (biology) Spontaneous activity of tissues or cells. (medicine) An act performed with no apparent exercise of will, as in sleepwalking and certain hysterical and epileptic states. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Leeman's account effaces Twombly's interventionist urgency of the late '50s, which challenged Pollock's mythical power of cultic and somatic primacy by shifting from gesture to scripture and by dislodging belated American automatisms with a proto-Lacanian conception of the textuality of the unconscious. See also James, 157, for his classic description of Bunyan's "Verbal automatisms. Like the "automatic writing" of the photograph, it was a body under the sway of its soma, a body that caricatured its own automatisms. |
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