Surrealism:
Desire Unbound
by Jennifer Mundy (Editor), Nicholas Serota
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Surrealism: Desire Unbound is not only a wonderfully produced catalog
to accompany the Tate Modern's excellent surrealism exhibition but also
a compelling addition to surrealist studies in its own right. As lavishly
illustrated as you could hope for (no fewer than 300 color illustrations),
the book really owes its strength to the quality of the essays, which come
from some of the best art historians around. Professor Dawn Ades, the consultant
editor, contributes "Surrealism, male-female," which builds on themes of
sexuality and the notion of the fluidity of the category of gender so important
to the surrealists, which she (and others, see particularly Surrealism
and Women) has previously addressed elsewhere; her book on Marcel Duchamp,
a constant reference point for so much modern art, is particularly good.
Hal Foster (well known for his argument that the 1990s saw the return to
bodies and spaces in art in his thought-provoking The Return of the Real)
adds a superb essay on the objectification and fetishization of women within
surrealist photography. David Lomas walks us through the influence of Freud
(arguably the first theorist of desire and psychoanalysis) on surrealism,
and Annie Le Brun rounds off the book with a look at the invention of desire
by surrealism and its adoption by modernity. Desire, as a category and
as an impetus, compelled much of the art and thinking of the surrealists,
and this excellent volume does much to explore and problematize the issues
surrounding sex, gender, and identity (the subtitle of the essential Women
in Dada, which should certainly be consulted when broaching these issues)
that obsessed these important artists and their often iconic art. This
is a big, beautiful, and bold book that does the surrealists proud. --Mark
Thwaite, Amazon.co.uk
Hardcover - 352 pages (November 1, 2001)
Princeton Univ Pr; ISBN: 0691090645
History
of the Surrealist Movement
by Gerard Durozoi
(Hardcover - April 2002)
The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp (2 Volumes in 1)
by Arturo Schwarz
Listed under Duchamp
Marcel
Duchamp and Max Ernst: The Bride Shared (Clarendon Studies in the History
of Art)
by David Hopkins
Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst are two of the greatest names associated
with Dada and Surrealism, the iconoclastic art movements of the early part
of the twentieth century. This detailed study brings their work into close
proximity for the first time, examining the structural interaction of "ready-made"
belief systems in their productions (Catholicism, ...
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L'Amour
fou : Photography and Surrealism
by Jane Livingston, et al
(Hardcover - January 2002)
Surrealism
and Women
by Mary Ann Caws (Editor), et al
(Paperback)
Andre
Breton, Magus of Surrealism
by Anna Elizabeth Balakian
(Hardcover - June 1971)
Manifestoes
of Surrealism
by Andre Breton, et al
(Paperback - June 1972)
Yves
Tanguy and Surrealism
by Karin Von Maur, et al
(Hardcover)
The
Art of Daniel Merriam: The Impetus of Dreams
by Daniel B. Merriam, Yale Beebee (Editor)
(Hardcover - May 1998)
Dada:
Art and Anti-Art (World of Art)
by Hans Richter, David Britt (Translator)
(Paperback - May 1997)
Surrealism
and the Sacred: Power, Eros, and the Occult in Modern Art
by Celia Rabinovitch
(Hardcover - May 2002)
Roland
Penrose: The Friendly Surrealist
by Antony Penrose, George Melly
(Hardcover - June 2001)
The
Home of the Surrealists: Lee Miller, Roland Penrose and Their Circle at
Farley Farm
by Antony Penrose, Alen Macweeney (Photographer)
(Hardcover - April 2002)
Surrealism:
The Dream of Revolution (Art Movements)
by Richard Leslie
(Hardcover - November 1998)
Pulp
Surrealism: Insolent Popular Culture in Early Twentieth-Century France
by Robin Walz
(Hardcover)
Joan Miro: 1893-1983
by Janis Mink
Listed under Joan Miro
Diary of a Genius
by Salvador Dali
Listed under Dali
Francis Bacon: A Retrospective
by Dennis Farr, et al
Listed under Francis Bacon
New
York Dada 1915-23
by Francis M. Naumann
(Hardcover - October 1994)
Making
Mischief : Dada Invades New York
by Francis M. Naumann, et al
(Hardcover - January 1997)
Surrealism
in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School
by Martica Sawin
(Paperback)
The
Home of the Surrealists : Lee Miller, Roland Penrose and Their Circle at
Farley Farm
by Antony Penrose, Alen MacWeeney
(Hardcover - April 2002)
Fashion
and Surrealism
by Richard Martin
(Paperback - September 1989)
Selected
Poems of Max Jacob
by Max Jacob, William T. Kulik (Editor)
(Paperback)
Mirror
Images
by Whitney Chadwick (Editor), Dawn Ades (Editor)
Women artists associated with the Surrealist movement in the 1930s
and 40s
Paperback - 258 pages (April 10, 1998)
MIT Press; ISBN: 0262531577
Hans Bellmer
by Sue Taylor
Listed under Erotic Art
Rene Magritte : 1898-1967
by Jacques Meuris
Listed under Magritte
Women
Artists and the Surrealist Movement
by Whitney Chadwick
Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.75 x 10.75 x 8.25
Publisher: Thames & Hudson; Reprint edition (July
1991)
ISBN: 0500276226
The European Avant-Gardes : Art in France and Western Europe 1904-c1945
(Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection)
Sammlung Thyssen-Bornemisza, et al
Hardcover / Published 1996
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