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Joseph Cornell
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Kynaston McShine (Editor), Joseph Cornell
Joseph Cornell remains one of the most popular artists of the 20th century. This work provides an insight into the artist's remarkable inner world: a universe populated with empty cages, mirrors, clay pipes, postage stamps, marbles, thimbles and paper scraps, Cornell collected in his basement repository and fashioned into self-contained ...
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Conversations: The Autobiography of Surrealism
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Andre Breton
The closest Andre Breton has ever come to writing an autobiography, Conversations--based on a series of radio interviews conducted with the founder of Surrealism in 1952--chronicles the entire Surrealist movement as lived from within, tracing the origins and development of Surrealism from the discovery of automatic writing in 1919 to the ...
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What you make it : a book of short storiesMichael Marshall Smith.
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Michael Marshall Smith
The first ever collection of Michael Marshall Smith's award-winning short stories. The first piece of fiction Smith ever wrote -- a short story called The Man Who Drew Cats -- won the World Fantasy award. It's included here along with many others, some unpublished, which show the incredible versatility of one of the most exciting writers working ...
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Surrealism and Architecture
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Thomas Mical
This is a historically informed examination of architecture's perceived absence in surrealist thought, surrealist tendencies in the theories and projects of modern architecture, and the place of surrealist thought in contemporary design. This book represents current insights into surrealism in the thought and practice of modern architecture. In ...
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The Surrealist Revolution in France
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Herbert S Gershman
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Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago
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Dawn Ades
One of the finest and most famous collections of Surrealist art ever assembled now housed at the Art Institute of Chicago is that of Chicago philanthropists Lindy and Edwin A. Bergman. Artists represented include Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso, among many others. Noted critic and art historian Dawn Ades has written an absorbing account of the ...
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Animations of mortality
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Terry Gilliam
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Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War
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Robin Adele Greeley
How might artistic practice offer unique insight into the cataclysmic debacle of war? "Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War" plumbs this provocative question through an ambitious account of a pivotal period in European cultural history. A new approach to the subject of artists' responses to war, it articulates the relation between artistic ...
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Surrealist Collage in Text and Image: Dissecting the Exquisite Corpse
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Elza Adamowicz
Elza Adamowicz presents an analysis of surrealist collage, both as a technique of cutting and pasting ready made material, and as a subversive and creative strategy. She considers verbal collage, pictorial collage, and the hybrids they generate, and discusses the works of Max Ernst and Andre Breton, as well as those of Aragon, Brunius, Eluard, ...
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Treatise on Style
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Louis Aragon, Ms. Alyson Waters (Translator)
"This is a thoughtful translation of Aragon's "Traite du Style", which originally appeared in 1928 at the confluence of Aragon's surrealist and Communist beliefs...His diatribe involves wordplay and juxtapositions that are more surrealist than political, as subjective and opinionated as possible, and a great pleasure to read." - Library Journal ...
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Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams
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Catherynne M Valente
In the mind of Ayako, an old woman in exile on a mountain in medieval Japan, nothing is certain, and nothing holds a familiar shape for long. This is a map of a psyche exalted and destroyed by solitude, and on its contorted surface Shinto philosophy, Greek mathematics, Hawaiian goddesses, Egyptian legend, quantum physics, and Babylonian myth meet ...
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Surrealism and After: The Gabrielle Keiller Collection
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Elizabeth Cowling, National Galleries of Scotland, Richard Calvocoressi
Featuring more than 400 items from the collection of Gabrielle Keiller, including the work of Paolozzi, Ray, Magritte, Picasso and Dali, this catalogue is divided into two parts. The first part, which includes 173 items, comprises the framed or sculpted items which Mrs. Keiller had on permanent display at her house. The second part, comprising ...
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This Fish is Loaded: The Book of Surreal and Bizarre Humor
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Richard Glyn Jones
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Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation
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Whitney Chadwick (Editor)
During the 1930s and 1940s, women artists associated with the Surrealist movement produced a significant body of self-images that have no equivalent among the works of their male colleagues. While male artists exalted Woman's otherness in fetishized images, women artists explored their own subjective worlds. The self-images of Claude Cahun, ...
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Dada & Surrealist Art
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William S Rubin
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The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Salvador Dali
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Angela Wenzel
This book presents the strange, humorous and wildly inventive paintings of Salvador Dali. The author helps children unlock the mysteries of Dali's artwork by explaining his use of detail, colour and illusion. Each double page spread in this book explores a single work to illustrate the ideas and influences that shaped Dali's work. The author ...
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Dada & Surrealism
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Robert Short
The two related movements, Dada and Surrealism, dominated the art world between the two World Wars with a new form of art that was intended to shock the spectator into a new awareness of reality. But Dada and Surrealism were more than just movements in art advocating new styles of painting; they were the expression of a revolt against Western ...
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Surrealist Art and Thought in the 1930s: Art, Politics, and the Psyche
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Steven Harris
Surrealist Art and Thought in the 1930s examines the intersection of Hegelian aesthetics, experimental art and poetry, Marxism and psychoanalysis in the theory and practice of the Surrealist movement. Locating Surrealist art and thought between modernist art and revolutionary politics, Steven Harris investigates the consequences of the Surrealists ...
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Enrico Donati: Surrealism and Beyond
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Theodore F Wolff
Enrico Donati first found acclaim when the grand master of Surrealism, Andre Breton, anointed him the movement's Wunderkind in 1942, soon after the young Italian's arrival in New York from Paris. He survived the demise of Surrealism and went on to exhibit with such major figures of the New York School as Rothko, de Kooning and Pollock. In addition ...
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Marvelous Enounters: Surrealist Responses to Film, Art, Poetry, and Architecture
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Willard Bohn
The concept of poesie critique - poetry that possesses both a poetic and a critical function - has an extensive history in modern literature. Written in response to another work of art, be it a painting, a film, a poem, or a piece of music, the critical poem comments on the latter in various ways but refuses to abandon its poetic mission. ...
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Salvador Dali
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Adam G Klein
Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dal was a controversial painter, sculptor, and filmmaker, as well as a jewelry, furniture, set, and costume designer. This biography highlights Dals childhood, education, art lessons and early Impressionist influence from Ramon Pitxot, work and friendship with filmmaker Luis Bunuel and poet Federico Garcia Lorca, ...
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Paris and the Surrealists
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George Melly, Michael Woods (Photographer)
George Melly narrates the history of Surrealism and describes his love affair with the movement and its native city.
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Surrealist Photography
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Christian Bouqueret
"Surrealist Photography" is one of four new titles being published this spring in Thames & Hudsons acclaimed "Photofile" series. Each book brings together the best work of the worlds greatest photographers in an attractive format and at an easily affordable price. Hailed by "The Times" as finely produced, the books are printed to the highest ...
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Bayamus & Cardinal Pvldt]o: Two Novels
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Stefan Themerson, Keith Waldrop (Introduction by)
Stefan Themerson (1910 -- 1988) ran the Gaberbocchus Press in London, which published both Kurt Schwitters and Bertrand Russell, and these extremes are united in Themerson's highly individual brand of philosophical dadaism. These two comic novels are Themerson's best, in their first U.S. publication".Nearly as mad as the world". -- Bertrand ...
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Surrealist drawings
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