Introduces surrealism, including its history, the fundamentals of the art movement, and famous surrealist artists.
"An indispensable tool ... for the student of Surrealism and book illustration ... [and] also for those interested in the complicated intrications between literature and pictorial movements from Romanticism to present-day Postmodernism"- ...
Spotlights fifty works of Surrealist art, including photographs, paintings, film stills, and sculptures, detailing each work's characteristics and significance in the Surrealist movement.
23 See David Bate , Photography and Surrealism : Sexuality , Colonialism and Social Dissent ( London : I. B. Tauris , 2004 ) , 46-53 . 24 Aragon , “ Il m'est impossible , ” 136 . 25 Le Libertaire , 26 January 1923 , I. 46 Ibid .
Manifestoes of Surrealism. Translated from the French by Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane. (Second Printing.).
Introduction with 30 photographs plus a timeline of the most important political, cultural, scientific and sporting events that took place during the movement; 35 most important works and artists included.
... literature and painting at Sarah Lawrence College for two years. She was a pupil for a while with George Grosz before joining in 1941 the Art Students League in New York where she studied with Morris Kantor and Raphael Soyer.
... Cecil Taylor, Michael McClure, Gustavo Rivera, Ahmed Yacoubi, Erró, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, Virginia Cox, ... Mark Brusse, Homero Aridjis, Robert Colescott, Robert Farris Thompson, Quincy Troupe, Bruce Conner, David Hammons, ...
Surrealism is a particularly complex international movement, embracing both the literary and the visual arts, while lacking any single visual or literary style, and this, together with its long existence,...
... CoBrA Kurczynski, Karen. The Cobra Movement in Postwar Europe: Reanimating Art. London: Routledge, 2020. Cocteau, Jean Fulacher, Pascal, and Dominique Marny. Jean Cocteau le magnifique: Les Miroirs d'un poète. Paris: Gallimard, 2013 ...
In Surrealism at Play Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy.