Surrealism

For many artists and intellectuals in East Germany, daily life had an undeniably surreal aspect, from the numbing repetition of Communist Party jar...

Reducere. This book examines the salient ideas and practices that have shaped Surrealism as a protean intellectual and cultural concept that fundamentally sh...

Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy, showing how its ...

Surrealism and Film after 1945 is the first collection devoted to the vibrant culture of transnational surrealist cinema since the Second World War...

Surrealist sabotage and the war on work is an art historical study devoted to international surrealism's critique of wage labour between 1920 and 1...

Surrealist women's writing: A critical exploration is the first sustained critical inquiry into the writing of women associated with surrealism. Fe...

The traumatic surreal is the first major study to examine the leading role Germanophone women artists have played in deploying surrealism to respon...

Brings to life Gertrude Stein's surrealist sensibilities and personal values borne from her WWII anxieties, not least of which originated in a drea...

A completely new way of looking at and understanding Surrealism, with a focus on the worldwide sweep of the movementPublisher: Metropolitan Museum ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Joanna PawlikIllustration(s): 48 color, 55 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 296Publication dat...

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons IncAuthor(s): D HopkinsNumber of pages: 496Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 178 x 253 x 31Cover type: Paperback / sof...

A wide-ranging look at surrealist and postsurrealist engagements with the culture and imagery of childhood.

In A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning's Chasm, Catriona McAra offers the first critical study of the literary work of the celebrated Ame...

Beginning in Paris in the 1920s, women poets, essayists, painters, and artists in other media have actively collaborated in defining and refining s...

Reducere. This book deals with the early intellectual reception of the cinema and the manner in which art theorists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and es...

Surrealism and the Visual Arts: Theory and Reception - Kim Grant

The first-ever history of the representation of dreams in Western painting, illustrated with works by more than 130 artists Organized by period, fr...

The skills of Ithell Colquhoun in her main practice, that of artist and pioneer in this country of surrealistic art, have been long recognised. Add...

Reducere. A Surrealist before she even knew of the movement, Lee Miller was one of the most original photographic artists of the twentieth century. David E. ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Esra PlumerIllustration(s): 21 bw illus; 21 bw illusNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimens...

Reducere. An expanded edition of revered theorist Michael Lowy's Morning Star: Marxism and Surrealism (previously published in French, Portuguese, Spanish, I...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert DesnosTranslator: Timothy AdesThis extensive and wide-ranging selection comprises the poetry of one of France's most...

DescriptionAn archive-based, in-depth analysis of the surreal nature and science movies of the pioneering French filmmaker Jean Painlev Before Jacq...

A biography of Robert Desnos (1900-1945), which re-evaluates the surrealist movement through the life and works of one of its founders. Desnos was ...

Presents the essential ideas of the founder of French surrealism.Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Andre BretonTranslator: Hele...

If you want to discover the captivating lives of Walt Disney and Salvador Dal , then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: Walt D...

A beautifully written and elegantly constructed narrative that explores the intense, complex and far-reaching female friendships among the Surreali...

New in paperback, Whitney Chadwick's groundbreaking study of women in the Surrealist movement.Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Whitney Chad...

Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyAuthor(s): Patrick (Patrick Lepetit) LepetitNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 230 x...

Publisher: Atlas PressAuthor(s): Robert DesnosNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 196 x 177 x 21Cover type: HardbackRedescopera f...

The British surrealist movement was, as it were, ploughed under by the Second World War which, as Read spoke, was gathering force. Yet Surrealist o...

Publisher: Atlas PressAuthor(s): Michel LeirisNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 196 x 179 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackR...

Publisher: Lee Miller Archives PublishingNumber of pages: 114Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 239 x 287 x 21Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedesc...

In the summer of 1935, Vitezslav Nezval, already one of the most celebrated Czech poets of his generation, embarked on a period of manic creativity...

For Bataille, the absence of myth had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had lost the secret of its cohesion, Bataille saw s...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Revised Edition. A new, perfect-bound edition of Andrew Joron's unprecedented work on the development of surrealist tendencies in American poetry b...

"The Arab world's greatest living poet."--The New York Times"Adonis is one of the most important major literary figures of our century. His vision ...

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Publisher: Lee Miller Archives PublishingAuthor(s): Ian ChanceNumber of pages: 10Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 148 x 210 x 7Cover type: Paperba...

Reducere. When the Cuban painter Wifredo Lam turns up dead in his Greenwich Village studio, the investigation takes Detective Sergeant John J. O'Connell and ...

Reducere. DescriptionOriginating in 1916 with the avant-garde Dada movement at the famous Caf Voltaire in Zurich, surrealism aimed to unleash the powers of t...

An absorbing account of the birth of surrealism and the interpersonal comings and goings of the key players among the painters and writers who made...

Surrealism was launched as a literary and artistic movement by French poet Andre Breton in 1924, and by the time of his death in 1966 it had become...

An introduction to the debates surrounding these artistic movements including discussions on Magritte, Dali, Duchamp and Man Ray. 20 b/w illus.

Presents a comprehensive work on Surrealism.Publisher: Enitharmon PressAuthor(s): David GascoyneNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2000Dimension...

Reducere. Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (1803-1847) was a French artist and satirist who was known by his pseudonym, J. J. Grandville. Un Autre Monde (Another W...

Introduction with 30 photographs plus a timeline of the most important political, cultural, scientific and sporting events that took place during t...