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1) Surrealism
Author
Series
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Surrealism was launched as a literary and artistic movement by French poet Andre Breton in 1924, and by the time of his death in 1966 had become one of the most popular art movements of the 20th century. Its very name has entered everyday usage as a synonym for bizarre. Taking the reader on a narrative journey through the history of Surrealism, this book is a digestible introduction to the movement's key figures, their works and where to find them....
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Why does Surrealism continue to fascinate us a century after André Breton?s Manifesto of Surrealism? How do we encounter Surrealism today? Mark Polizzotti vibrantly reframes the Surrealist movement in contemporary terms and offers insight into why it continues to inspire makers and consumers of art, literature, and culture.0 0Polizzotti shows how many forms of popular media can thank Surrealism for their existence, including Monty Python, Theatre...
Author
Series
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art, with its obsession with sexuality, fetishism, and shock tactics. In this new treatment of the subject, Hopkins focuses on the many debates surrounding these movements: the Marquis de Sade's Surrealist deification, issues of quality (How good is Dali?), the idea of the 'readymade', attitudes towards the city, the
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Publisher
City Lights Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Poet Alan Bernheimer provides a long overdue English translation of this French literary classic -- Lost Profiles is a retrospective of a crucial period in modernism, written by co-founder of the surrealist movement. Opening with a reminiscence of the international Dada movement in the late 1910s and its transformation into the beginnings of surrealism, Lost Profiles then proceeds to usher its readers into encounters with a variety of literary lions....
Author
Publisher
Watson-Guptill
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A unique behind-the-scenes guide to the painting process of one of the most popular artists working in the growing, underground art scene of Pop Surrealism. Painting superstar Camilla d'Errico opens up her studio and offers readers an insider scoop on the tools, techniques, and inspirations she draws from to create stunningly beautiful, otherworldly works of art. Pop Surrealism, with its unique blend of high art and popular culture, has been a growing...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Focusing on the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, Whitney Chadwick charts five intense, far-reaching female friendships among the surrealists to show how surrealism and the experiences of war, loss and trauma shaped individual women's transitions from beloved muses to mature artists. Her vivid account includes the fascinating story of Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe's subversive activities in occupied Jersey, as well as the experiences of Lee Miller and Valentine...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
During the 1920s, in the Parisian neighbourhood of Montparnasse, a unique flowering of avant-garde artistic creativity became the cradle of Dada and Surrealism. In this crowd biography, Sue Roe tells the story - from Duchamp to Dali, via Man Ray and Max Ernst - of the salons and cafes, alliances and feuds, love affairs and scandals, successes and suicides of one of the most important and long-lasting artistic achievements of the twentieth century....
Publisher
The Baltimore Museum of Art
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"During the pivotal decades leading up to World War II and throughout the war, important Surrealist artists such as Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, André Masson, Joan Miró, Wolfgang Paalen, and Yves Tanguy--some of whom had served as soldiers in World War I--responded through their works to the repression and violence attending the rise of Hitler and the spread of Fascism in Europe. In this engrossing volume, essays by experts in the field and more than...
Author
Publisher
Watson-Guptill Publications
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An easy-to-follow, step-by-step manga drawing instruction book from fan favorite manga artist and painter Camilla d'Errico, featuring 32 lessons on illustrating cute, cool, and quirky characters in the Pop Surrealist style with pencils"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Watson-Guptill Publications
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
An introduction to Surrealism which includes guidance for related activities as well as brief biographies of six artists: Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, Joan Mir, Merit Oppenheim, and Frida Kahlo.
18) Polanski
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The life and career of Polanski, an Oscar-winning film director, Holocaust survivor, and exile.
Author
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An anarchic introduction to art for young rebels everywhere. This irreverent introduction to art gives children the confidence to respond to art on their own terms, and - most importantly - to have fun with it. Under the playful guidance of Leo, the museum cat, readers encounter abstract, Surrealist, nude and contemporary art, ancient sculpture, still lifes and portraits. But instead of being told facts to memorize, they're equipped with the knowledge...
20) Dora Maar
Publisher
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Examines the work of artist and photographer Dora Maar (1907-1997), who was active at the height of Surrealism in France, highlighting her contributions in the areas of commercial and fashion photography, her interest in socially concerned photography, and her late work from a relatively reclusive phase of her career"--
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