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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Detta är den första dstörre forskningspublikationen som gjorts om Thea Ekström och hennes konst. Genom text och blid, och genom nehetsrappotering, brev, dagboksanteckningar och analys av konstnärliga verk lotsar konstvetaren Linda Fagerström läser...

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Organisers say it is an unprecedented way to organise an exhibition: while some works and themes remain constant in each city, others change and each museum tells its own story. Perfect, then, for a movement that always aimed to subvert traditiona...

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This pioneering book stands as the most comprehensive treatment of the lives, ideas and art works of the remarkable group of women who were an essential part of the Surrealist movement. Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim and Dorothea Tanning, among many...

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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, she escaped the stultifying de...

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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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Before her death, the artist and writer Leonora Carrington (19172011) had already garnered a cult following, with numerous creative people making the pilgrimage to meet her at her home in Mexico City. Since then, her fame has only increased. Think...

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Cult classic and collectors item, Dalis Mustache is the result of the astonishing artistic collaboration between surrealist Salvador Dal and experimental photography pioneer Philippe Halsman. Dal and Halsman were friends as well as professional co...

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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 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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A reprint of the authoritative second edition published by G.K. Hall in 1981. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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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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Forskningsantologin Halmstadgruppen- Den svenska surrealismens pionjärer är den första i Sverige som belyser Halmstadgruppen ur konstvetenskapligt perspektiv. Antologin samlar texter av konstvetarna Andrea Kollnitz, Helen Fuchs, Johan Zimsen och k...

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Open the door to the dreamlike world of surrealism! In this magical book, pop-up engineer Grard Lo Monaco brings to life eight works of art by leading surrealists: Salvador Dal, Victor Brauner, Jean Arp, Man Ray, Joseph Cornell, Dora Maar, Ren Mag...

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Les diners de Gala is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of taste If you are a disciple of one of those calorie-counters who turn the joys of eating into a form of punishment, close this book at once; it is too lively, too aggressive, and far too i...

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'A thrilling insight into one of the 20th century's great artists. Agar's exuberant and colourful life and work come alive in this book' Katy Hessel 'A vivid panorama of an adventurous and stimulating age' Financial T...

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On Tropical Grounds develops a new approach to the avant-garde and Surrealism in Caribbean and Atlantic studies. The book examines how islands and their tropical associations figure in the cultural and political imaginaries of the Caribbean and th...

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The traumatic surreal is the first major study to examine the ground-breaking role played by Germanophone women artists working in surrealist traditions in responding to the traumatic events and legacies of the Second World War. Analysing works in...

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A stunning work of memoir and an unforgettable depiction of the brilliance and madness by one of Surrealism's most compelling figures In 1937 Leonora Carrington-later to become one of the twentieth century's great painters of the weird, the alarmi...

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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. For surrealist artists, play took a consistent role in their aesthetic as they worked in, with...

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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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No other art movement in history has contained two artists as different as Magritte and Miro. This is because Surrealism was not in origin an art movement, but a philosophical strategy. It was a way of life - a rebellion against the establishment ...

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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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New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting by Robert Zeller offers a sweeping exposition of both historical Surrealism and its legacy in the world of contemporary art It demonstrates the many ways in which the most significant art moveme...

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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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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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Exquisite Dreams is the first full account of Dorothea Tanning's art and life. Rather than only focusing on her well-known surrealist paintings, this book gives equal weight to Tanning's lesser-known but equally powerful sculptures, abst...

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Published posthumously as Dreams, Styrský's dream journal spanning the interwar years comprises prose, sketches, collages, and paintings. The present volume includes the complete series based on Styrskÿ's layout for its publication, his sole...

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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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The first major collection of poetry written in English by the flabbergasting and flamboyant Baroness Elsa, "the first American Dada." As a neurasthenic, kleptomaniac, man-chasing proto-punk poet and artist, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag...

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