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Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation
by Whitney Chadwick
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During the 1930s and 1940s, women artists associated with the Surrealist movement produced a significant body of self-images that have no equivalent among the works of their male colleagues. While male artists exalted Woman's otherness in fetishized... ( read more)
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Manifestoes of Surrealism
by Andre Breton
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Presents the essential ideas of the founder of French surrealism... ( read more)
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Dada and Surrealism (Very Short Introductions)
by David Hopkins
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The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art, with its obsession with sexuality, fetishism, and shock tactics. In this new treatment of the subject, Hopkins... ( read more)
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Dadas on Art (71 Edition)
by Tzara
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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, Max... ( read more)
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Wifredo Lam and the International Avant-Garde, 1923-1982
by Lowery Stokes Sims
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With its signature style that marries Cubism and Surrealism with Afro-Cuban and Caribbean motifs, the art of Wifredo Lam occupies a unique position in the history of modern art. Like many modern artists, specifically Pablo Picasso, Lam participated in... ( read more)
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Dada & Surrealism for Beginners (For Beginners)
by Peter Bethanis
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What kind of artists put a moustache on the Mona Lisa? Enter a urinal in an art competition? Declare their own independent republic? Hijack a ship? Dadas And what happens to such a movement? With Dada, many of the artists declared their own Pope and... ( read more)
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Masters of Deception (07 Edition)
by Escher
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Rings of seahorses that seem to rotate on the page. Butterflies that transform right before your eyes into two warriors with their horses. A mosaic portrait of oceanographer Jacques Cousteau made from seashells. These dazzling and often playful artistic... ( read more)
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Marc Chagall: The Lost Jewish World
by Benjamin Harshav
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"If I were not a Jew . . . I wouldn't have been an artist, or I would be a different artist altogether." -Marc Chagall, Leaves from My Notebook. Marc Chagall is one of the most popular artists of the 20th century, famous for his poetic, surreal images... ( read more)
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Surrealism Against the Current (01 Edition)
by Michael Richardson
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Bringing together many Surrealist texts that have never previously been available in English, this collection is an essential guide for anyone who wishes to understand the Surrealist movement. Including a wealth of original works, it traces its... ( read more)
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Surreal Things
by Ghislaine Wood
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Finding fun in the alphabet, Abrams’ popular Animalia turns every day into an activity day. 16-month activity calendar, with 6 non-toxic markers and stickers!... ( read more)
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The Dada Spirit
by Emmanu De L Ecotais
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Dada. This onomatopoeia suggesting a child's babbling started one of the most important mutations in the history of art. But what is Dada? Born of the First World War, Dada is a movement bringing together both artists and writers. From Zurich in 1916, it... ( read more)
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Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary
by Hugo Ball
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Hugo Ball (1886-1927)--poet, philosopher, novelist, cabaret performer, journalist, and mystic--was a man extremely sensitive to the currents of his time. In February 1916 he founded the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. The sound poems and performance art by... ( read more)
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Surrealism: Genesis of Revolution (Temporis)
by Megan Mcshane
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Subtitled, "From Dada To Surrealism". Movements that appeared in the aftermath of the First World War, as escapism was needed desperately.... ( read more)
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Memoirs of a Dada Drummer (Documents of Twentieth Century Art)
by Richard Huelsenbeck
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Huelsenbeck's memoirs bring to life the concerns--intellectual, artistic, and political--of the individuals involved in the Dada movement and document the controversies within the movement and in response to it.... ( read more)
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Surrealism: Desire Unbound
by Jennifer Mundy
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With qualifications, everything in the show possesses surreality--or convulsive beauty--providing we understand how to unlock it. The most helpful thing to understand is that aesthetics was never a central Surrealist preoccupation, so looking for an... ( read more)
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Surreal People
by Alexander Klar
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The web of friendships within the Surrealist circle was a key source of inspiration for this close group of artists and writers, and many of their greatest works stem from a collaborative approach to the creative process. "Surreal People" is a... ( read more)
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Dali & Film
by Salvador Dali
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Salvador Dali was one of the most famous--and one of the most notorious--artists of the twentieth century, recognized as much in the popular imagination for his flamboyant personal style and his penchant for showmanship as for his groundbreaking artworks... ( read more)
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The Portable Dali
by Robert Hughes
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An essential visual reference book on one of the most popular artists of all time.... ( read more)
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A Boatload of Madmen: Surrealism and the American Avant-Garde 1920-1950
by Dickran Tashjian
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In 1932, against the troubled background of the Depression, the American art community had its first glimpse of the revolutionary art of the Surrealists. Combining a fascination for Freud's new symbolic language of dreams with a radical utopianism, the... ( read more)
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Joan Miro: Snail Woman Flower Star
by Stephan Von Wiese
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Tracing Mir????????'s career, this book begins in the 1920s with the artist's introduction to surrealism, cubism, and dadaism, and the flowering of his friendships with Picasso, Braque and other influential artists and poets. It moves on to his creation... ( read more)
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