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Marc Chagall, 1887-1985: Painting as Poetry (Basic Art)
Ingo F Walther
Taschen
Taschen
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) epitomized the "painter as poet" with work that was steeped in mythology and mysticism, portraying colorful dreams and folktales deeply rooted in his Russian Jewish origins. No 20th-century artist approached him in...
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Eric White: It Feeds Itself
Eric White, Gail Zappa
Last Gasp
Last Gasp
Eric Whites paintings tour a netherworld populated by movie stars, political figures, and ordinary people stretched and distorted and placed in bizarre landscapes but always disturbingly recognizable. Dubbed the antiNorman Rockwell,White employs a...
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Dada : The Revolt of Art (Discoveries)
Marc Dachy
"Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
"Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries (r) volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively...
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Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design
Ghislaine Wood
Victoria & Albert Museum
Victoria & Albert Museum
From the sensuality of Salvador Dalís Mae West Lips Sofa to Elsa Schiaparellis extraordinary Tear dress, Surrealism produced some of the most emotive objects of the twentieth century. In this important study, published to accompany a major...
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The Shadow and its Shadow
City Lights Publishers
City Lights Publishers
Here is a classic collection of writings by the Surrealists on their mad love of moviegoing. Forty-odd theoretical, polemical, and poetical essays document Surrealism's scandalous and nonreductive take on film. The essayists include such names as...
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Dadas on Art: Tzara, Arp, Duchamp and Others (Dover Books on Art, Art History)
Dover Publications
Dover Publications
Anarchistic, fractured, and born from the ashes of World War I, the Dada movement influenced nearly every aspect of 20th-century art. Focusing mainly on visual artists, this select anthology features prose, poetry, and polemics from Marcel Duchamp,...
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Oui: The Paranoid-Critical Revolution
Salvador Dali
Exact Change
Exact Change
Salvador Dal''s writings from the period in which he was most closely allied with the Surrealists have never before been translated into English. These short fictions, essays, and poems contain all the egotistic brio one might expect from Dal', but...
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