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Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School
Martica Sawin
The MIT Press
The MIT Press
The French/European story of Surrealism has been written; the story of abstract expressionism has been told. But the connection between them, how one acted as a catalyst for the other, has been a long-missing chapter in the history of art. Martica...
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Dali: Genius, Obsession and Lust
Ralf Schiebler, Jacqueline Guigui-Stolberg
Prestel Publishing
Prestel Publishing
Examining the artist's own writings, this book explores Salvador Dali's life and art, particularly focusing on his obsessions wih sex, wealth, fame and death.
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Surrealism and the Politics of Eros, 1938-1968
Alyce Mahon
Thames & Hudson
Thames & Hudson
A radically new history of French surrealism by a brilliant young art historian. In contrast to the orthodox view that surrealism slid into a terminal decline after the 1930s, Alyce Mahon shows that the movement was instead transformed in the war...
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Magnifying Mirrors: Women, Surrealism, and Partnership
Renee Riese Hubert
University of Nebraska Press
University of Nebraska Press
Although notorious for their idiosyncrasies, the surrealists revived artistic collaboration as an honorable and productive practice. Most of the famous surrealists were men, yet almost all were involved with women artists who were much more than...
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