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Abridged, rev., and updated. |
| Description |
207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface / Mary Ann Caws -- Survey / Mary Ann Caws: -- Works: -- Chance And Freedom: -- Enigma of Isidore Ducasse / Man Ray -- Dust breeding / Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp -- Waking dream / Man Ray -- La Revolution surrealiste -- Man / Andre Masson -- Furious suns / Andre Masson -- Catalan landscape (hunter) / Joan Miro -- Stars in the sexes of a snail / Joan Miro -- Painting (blue) / Joan Miro -- Torn drawing / Jean Arp -- Lips-mouth / Jean Arp -- Air is a root / Jean Arp -- Arena / Claude Cahun -- Fish drawn in the sand / Andre Masson -- Hand in the clouds / Yves Tanguy -- Bird. Fish / Salvador Dali -- Exquisite corpse / Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, Max Morise, Man Ray -- Tristan / Andre Breton, Nusch Eluard, Valentine Hugo, Greta Knutson-Tzara -- Exquisite corpses / Tzara -- Wheel of light / Max Ernst -- Forest / Max Ernst -- Decalcomania / Oscar Dominguez -- Snowbirds making snow / Len Lye -- Of the same ilk / Jindrich Heisler -- Collective drawing, Marseille -- Graffiti / Brassai -- Poetics Of Vision: -- False mirror / Rene Magritte -- Future of statues / Rene Magritte -- Fatal light / Giorgio de Chirico -- Pleiades / Max Ernst -- At the first clear word / Max Ernst -- Celebes / Max Ernst -- I do not see the.hidden in the forest / Rene Magritte -- Introduces members of the surrealist group / Max Ernst -- Hundred-headless woman / Max Ernst -- Let's go! Let's dance the tenebreuse / Max Ernst -- Untitled / Roger Parry -- Little Alabaster hand / Jindrich Styrsky -- Untitled / Jacques Brunius -- Statue of Liberty, from vanity case / Jindrich Styrsky -- Garden aeroplane trap / Max Ernst -- Key of dreams /Rene Magritte -- Treachery of images / Rene Magritte -- Human condition / Rene Magritte -- Apparition / Rene Magritte -- Central story / Rene Magritte -- Reproduction forbidden / Rene Magritte -- Your tapers taper / Yves Tanguy -- Title unknown / Yves Tanguy -- Untitled / Yves Tanguy -- Wounded personage, from constellations / Joan Miro -- Painting (composition) / Joan Miro -- Hunter / Oscar Dominguez -- Composition / Maurice Tabard -- Elusive Objects: -- Model with Alberto Giacometti's disagreeable object / Man Ray -- Suspended ball / Alberto Giacometti -- View of l'exposition Surrealiste d'objets, galerie Charles Ratton, Paris / Man Ray -- Why not sneeze rose selavy / Marcel Duchamp -- Involuntary sculptures / Brassai -- Photographs of the Paris metro / Brassai -- Disagreeable objects on a face / Jean Arp -- Certitude of the never seen / Yves Tanguy -- Woman in a red armchair / Pablo Picasso -- Large statue in Picasso's sculpture studio at Boisgeloup / Brassi -- Four piece composition: reclining figure / Henry Moore -- Eye, nose and cheek / F E McWilliam -- Rocks, Brittany / Eileen Agar -- Cock rock, Egypt, near Siwa / Lee Miller -- Untitled (poem-object, for Jacqueline) / Andre Breton -- Cover of a book which has dwelled in the sea / Leonor Fini -- Fossil of the Eiffel Tower / Raoul Ubac -- My nurse / Meret Oppenheim -- Scatalogical object functioning symbolically / Salvador Dali -- Cotton grass / Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore (Suzanne Malherbe) -- Object (breakfast in fur) / Meret Oppenheim -- Imp of the perverse / Rene Magritte -- Subversion of images / Paul Nouge -- Indestructible object /Man Ray -- Spectre of the Gardenia / Marcel Jean -- Venus de Milo with drawers / Salvador Dali -- Torso / Jean Arp -- Mathematical object / Man Ray -- Model for the endless house / Frederick Kiesler -- Mile of string installation, 'first papers of surrealism' / Marcel Duchamp. |
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Desire: -- Return to reason / Man ray -- False sky / Brassai -- Sea star / Robert Desnos and Man Ray -- Untitled (plate 9) / Claude Cahun -- Nude / Brassai -- Untitled / Man Ray -- Lee Miller / Man Ray -- Nude bent forward / Lee Miller -- Distortion / Andre Kertesz -- Untitled self-portrait / Claude Cahun -- Untitled / Maurice Tabard -- La Septieme face ju de / Georges Hugnet -- Facile / Man Ray and Paul Eluard -- Charcot / Photographs by Regnard from J-M -- Phenomenon of ecstasy / Salvador Dali -- Doll / Hans Bellmer -- Doll / Hans Bellmer -- Legs and feet / Hans Bellmer -- Thousand girls / Hans Bellmer -- Battle of the amazons / Raoul Ubac -- Agui in the mirror with damaged silvering / Raoul Ubac -- Untitled (penny arcade portrait of Lauren Bacall) / Joseph Cornell -- Street of trams / Paul Delvaux -- Echo / Paul Delvaux -- Seeing is believing / Roland Pensrose -- Stone woman / Meret Oppenheim -- Portable garbo / Wilhelm Freddie -- Victory / Pierre Molinier -- Delirium: -- Andalusian dog / Salvador Dali -- Golden age / Salvador Dali -- Untitled (big toe) / Jacques-Andre Boiffard -- Little cinders / Salvador Dali -- Lugubrious game / Salvador Dali -- Enigma of desire / Salvador Dali -- Architectonic Angelus of millet / Salvador Dali -- Invisible lion, horse, sleeping woman / Salvador Dali -- Angelus of gala / Salvador Dali -- Javanese mannequin / Salvador Dali -- Study for premonition of the Civil War / Salvador Dali -- Fantomas / Victor Brauner -- Strange case of Mr K / Victor Brauner -- Woman with her throat cut / Alberto Giacometti -- Machine-gunneress in a state of grace / Hans Bellmer -- Guernica / Pablo Picasso -- Simulator / Dora Maar -- Shooting gallery / Toyen -- Theatre of cruelty / Antonin Artaud -- Composition-untitled / Wols -- Mescaline drawing / Henri Michaux -- Infinite Terrains: -- Capricorn / Max Ernst -- Day and night / Max Ernst -- Sleeper / Toyen -- What the water brought me / Frida Kahlo -- Untitled / Roberto Matta -- Labyrinth 39, or psychological morphology / Esteban Frances -- Vegetal puppets / Remedios Varo -- It's spring, despite everything / Jacqueline Lamba -- Iroquoian landscape / Andre Masson -- Vertigo of Eros / Roberto Matta -- Gathering / Wifredo Lam -- Toward the blue peninsula (for Emily Dickinson) / Joseph Cornell -- Solomon islands / Joseph Cornell -- Circuit of the light knight through the dark queen / Gordon Onslow Ford -- Garden in Sochi 2 / Arshile Gorky -- Melusine and the great transparents / Kurt Seligmann -- Solar flares / Wolfgang Paalen -- Onyx of Electra / Roberto Matta -- Oneiric transmutation / Victor Brauner -- Box of surprises / Victor Brauner -- Journey to go / Kay Sage -- All soundings are referred to high water / Kay Sage -- Hip bone / Leonor Fini -- Baby giant / Leonora Carrington -- Children's games / Dorothea Tanning -- Eine Kleine Nachtmusik / Dorothea Tanning -- Mirror / Dorothea Tanning -- Appendices -- Artists' And Authors' Biographies -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgements. |
| Summary |
Overview: Surrealism is a survey of the twentieth century's longest lasting and, arguably, most influential art movement. Championed and held together by Andre Breton for over forty years, Surrealism was France's major avant-garde artistic tendency from 1924 onwards, rapidly spreading around the globe to become an international phenomenon. During World War II Surrealism's exiled artists and writers had a major impact on American art and were a primary influence for the Abstract Expressionist generation. The official surrealist movement continued to the end of Breton's life in 1966, and its legacy is still pervasive today, in contemporary art as well as in numerous quotations from surrealist imagery in cinema, advertising and the media. The Survey essay by Mary Ann Caws - a distinguished scholar, translator and associate of the Surrealists - describes in clear, perceptive and lively prose the essential characteristics that define Surrealism, as well as tracing a concise path through the chronology of this prolific and wide-ranging movement. The text also demonstrates how surrealist art and writing are interdependent. The Works section follows the movement from its beginnings in the 1920s up to the 1940s and 1950s. Its six sections trace the themes which predominated at different stages: Chance and Freedom - the earliest work, characterized by complete automatic spontaneity; Poetics of Vision - the strategies of surrealist image-making, reflecting the mind's inner visions; Elusive Objects - the fascination with objects of all kinds from which emerged artworks such as Meret Oppenheim's celebrated fur-lined cup and saucer; Desire - the investigation of desire, eroticism and 'mad love' which is central and unique to the movement; Delirium - Surrealism's high-risk engagement with extreme mental states and disturbing, uncanny visions; and, the Infinite Terrains of later Surrealism, ranging from Joseph Cornell's magical assemblages in box frames, like 'theatres of the mind', to the infinite fields and dynamic energy of late surrealist painting at the dawn of Abstract Expressionism. |
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Surrealism.
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Surrealism. (OCoLC)fst01139538
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Surrealismus.
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Kunst.
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Caws, Mary Ann.
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| ISBN |
9780714856735 |
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0714856738 |
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