Surrealism & dadaism

The photographer and visual artist Erik Johansson creates surreal worlds through his own unique method. It often takes him months just to create one image, in a process where his photographs are combined so that an original place emerges. The resu...

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Among the women artists who have transcended art history, none had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (19071954). Her unmistakable face, depicted in over fifty extraordinary self-portraits, has been admired by generations; alon...

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Painter, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker, Salvador Dal (19041989) was one of the centurys greatest exhibitionists and eccentricsand was rewarded with fierce controversy wherever he went. He was one of the first to apply the insights of Sigmund Fre...

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This definitive appreciation of Kahlo's career features gorgeous full-page reproductions and insightful commentary to illuminate connections between the artist's life and work. Few painters have been as celebrated and adopted into popular culture ...

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Now available in paperback, this book remains the definitive survey of the life and work of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (1917-2011). Carrington burst onto the Surrealist scene in 1936, when, as a precocious nineteen-year-old debutante, sh...

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With a career spanning seven decades, Catalan-born Joan Mir (18931983) was a polymath giant of modern art, producing masterworks across painting, sculpture, art books, tapestry, and ceramics, and embracing ideologies as varied as Fauvism, Surreali...

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Presents the essential ideas of the founder of French surrealism.

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With Salvador Dali as its figurehead, the great ship of Surrealism traversed the turbulent seas of the early 20th century with sails billowing with dreams and desires. Inspired by the psychoanalytical practice of Sigmund Freud, the Surrealists cha...

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As heard on BBC Radio 4's 'A Good Read 'Where and how Dada began is almost as difficult to determine as Homer's birthplace', writes Hans Richter, the artist and film-maker closely associated with this radical movement from...

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Leonor Finis mångsidiga konstnärskap presenterades för första gången för en svensk och nordisk publik på Bildmuseet våren 2014. Boken Leonor Fini / Pourqoui pas? innehåller ett rikt bildmaterial från utställningen och tidigare opublicerade texter ...

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In 1917, Marcel Duchamp sent out a 'telegram' in the guise of a urinal signed R. Mutt. When it arrived at its destination a good forty years later it was both celebrated and vilified as proclaiming that anything could be art; from that point on, t...

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World-renowned for her work during the Weimar period, Hannah Hoech was a pioneer in many aspects, both artistic and cultural. She was the lone woman of the Berlin Dada movement - the riotous form of art that deconstructed sound, language, and imag...

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Startling early autobiography, with over 80 photographs of Dali and his works, and scores of Dali drawings and sketches.

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In 1932, at the peak of French colonialism, a group of Martiniquan students at the Sorbonne established a Caribbean Surrealist Group, and published a single issue of a journal called Lgitime dfense. Immediately banned by the authorities, it passed...

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In this generously illustrated and lively book, Christopher Lloyd sets out and interprets the lifelong achievement of Picasso (18811973) as a draftsman. Although there have been many publications about his drawings that have tended to focus on par...

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Dada magazines made Dada what it was: diverse, non-hierarchical, transnational, and defiant of the most fundamental artistic conventions. This book, the first of its kind to critically examine the place of Dada periodicals within the art movement,...

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With unparalleled artistic originality Max Ernst (18911976) transformed everything he touched. By pushing the boundaries and breaking loose from the confined view of the culture of his time, he became one of the most important figures of Dadaism a...

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In 2006 journalist Joanna Moorhead discovered that her father's cousin, Prim, who had disappeared many decades earlier, was now a famous artist in Mexico. Although rarely spoken of in her own family (regarded as a black sheep, a wild child; s...

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From men in bowler hats, floating in the sky, to a painting of a pipe above the caption "this is not a pipe", Ren Magritte (18981967) created an echo chamber of object and image, name and thing, reality and representation. Like other Sur...

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First published to great acclaim in 1996, New Yorker writer and art critic Calvin Tomkins' biography of the influential artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) has been out of print for many years. Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, is publishing ...

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No Italian painter of this century has aroused so much comment, from eulogy to outright condemnation, as Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978). One of the initiators of surrealism, he is a key figure in modern art; his influence on later painters, partic...

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A sumptuous single-volume edition of Phaidon's acclaimed overview of one of the greatest painters of our time Larger-than-life British artist Lucian Freud enjoyed a career lasting over seven decades. He worked almost until the day he died, wh...

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The second of the great Surrealist's collage novels, this profoundly bizarre work was first published in Paris in 1930. Humor and irony abound in its expression of religious ecstasy and carnal desire.

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Masterpiece created out of periodical illustrations explores worlds of terror and surprise. Some consider this Ernst's greatest work.

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The work of two leading Surrealist artists Published on occasion of the exhibition Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy: Ring of Iron, Ring of Wool curated by Dr Victoria-Noel-Johnson, Marzina Marzetti (Director of the Helly Nahmad Gallery) in collaboration w...

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Life and work of the artist and style icon Frida Kahlo in a compact overview. Frida Kahlo has become an icon of art with her powerfully expressive work. Her pictures not only reflect a view of herself, her fears, the biography of her illness, her ...

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Painter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker, and all-round showman Salvador Dal (19041989) was one of the 20th centurys greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics. One of the first artists to apply the insights of Freudian psychoanalysis to art, he is celebr...

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Reluctant muse and feminist champion society heiress and rebel refugee the last of the Surrealists: Leonora Carrington played many roles in her long and extraordinary life. Renouncing her privileged upbringing in pre-war England for the more excit...

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This beautiful, fully illustrated book presents a compendium of artworks throughout history which have been inspired by myth, fantasy and the unreal. Artists have explored imaginary worlds and fantastical creatures for centuries, expressing the un...

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This book is a study of modern spiritualism, which flourished in the third quarter of the nineteenth century, and of surrealism, in its heyday between the world wars. The pairing yields a range of provocative material for working through issues wi...

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