Uncanny

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The uncanny basically means 'the opposite of what is familiar', it is a mixture of the familiar and unfamiliar that we see as being peculiar.
Rick Poynor said that "work showing a strong debt to Surrealism emerges only when a graphic artist or designer appears who is attuned to this way of thinking, dreaming and imagining."
There is a difference between surrealism and the uncanny, for example some images are surreal but not uncanny.


Uncanny= unhomely (German; unheimlich)
Freud says the 'double' is an element in the uncanny, the closer the resemblance, the more we see the difference, and so twins are unsettling to see.




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