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Exquisite Corpse: Surrealism and the Black Dahlia Murder
Mark Nelson, Sarah Hudson Bayliss
Bulfinch
Bulfinch
Bridging the worlds of high art and true crime, Exquisite Corpse presents a unique perspective on the most notorious unsolved murder case of the twentieth century--the bizarre 1947 killing of Elizabeth Short, better known as the Black Dahlia...
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Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DOCUMENTS
Dawn Ades, Simon Baker
The MIT Press
The MIT Press
In the Paris art world of the 1920s, Georges Bataille and his journal DOCUMENTS represented a dissident branch of surrealism. Bataille--poet, philosopher, writer, and self-styled "enemy within" surrealism--used DOCUMENTS to put art into violent...
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Max Ernst: Life and Work
Werner Spies
Thames & Hudson
Thames & Hudson
A penetrating, intimate portrayal of the creative life of an individual artist and of the artistic life of the twentieth century. Throughout his career, Max Ernst created fantastic worlds through images. But it is only when one sees his work in...
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History of the Surrealist Movement
Gerard Durozoi
University Of Chicago Press
University Of Chicago Press
"With its unprecedented depth and range, this massive new history of Surrealism from veteran French philosopher and art critic Durozoi will be the one-volume standard for years to come. . . . The book discusses expertly the main surrealist artists...
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Letters from the Avant-Garde: Modern Graphic Design (Kiosk Books)
L. Cohen
Princeton Architectural Press
Princeton Architectural Press
Letters from the Avant-Garde presents designs for business?ephemera -- including stationery, envelopes, postcards, and?business cards -- created by F.T. Marinetti, André?Breton, Herbert Bayer, Kurt Schwitters, El Lissitzky, Mies van der Rohe,?Jan...
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The Portable Magritte (Portables)
Universe Publishing
Universe Publishing
The Portable Magritte represents a new approach to the enjoyment and study of art in book form. With more than 400 color reproductions and a compact handheld size, this book manages to be affordable and comprehensive. It's like a catalogue...
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Max Ernst and Alchemy : A Magician in Search of Myth (Surrealist
M. E. Warlick
University of Texas Press
University of Texas Press
Surrealist artist Max Ernst defined collage as the "alchemy of the visual image." Students of his work have often dismissed this comment as simply a metaphor for the transformative power of using found images in a new context. Taking a wholly...
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