Does the highlighted sentence mean "automatists such as Masson and Miro were examples of artists who represented the unconscious directly and spontaneously, in contrast with Dali and Max Ernst"?
Context:
The rather obvious way in which Salvador Dali and Max Ernst, for instance, grafted Freudian ideas onto their familial or interpersonal relationships – for example, Dali’s The Lugubrious Game (1929) or Ernst’s Oedipus Rex (1922) – demonstrates that the unconscious was sometimes consciously, if not prescriptively, channelled through some fairly obvious psychoanalytic models rather than represented directly and spontaneously, as might more credibly be argued for automatists such as Masson and Miro.
Pretty much. The writer does not go so far as to make that pronouncement but merely puts forward the idea, admittedly rather premeditatedly.
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Pretty much. The writer does not go so far as to make that pronouncement but merely puts forward the idea, admittedly rather premeditatedly.