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Surreal Lives
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Author : Ruth Brandon
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 2000-08
Surreal Lives written by Ruth Brandon and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08 with Art categories.
Brandon follows the lives of the Surrealists--such as Andre Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali and Man Ray--through the movement, which culminated at the end of World War II. 24 pages of photos.
A Surreal Life
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Author : Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery, and Museums
language : en
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
Release Date : 1998-04-24
A Surreal Life written by Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery, and Museums and has been published by Philip Wilson Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-04-24 with Art categories.
A series of essays examining the many facets of the man known for his patronage of surrealist art.
The Surreal Life Of Leonora Carrington
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Author : Joanna Moorhead
language : en
Publisher: Virago Press
Release Date : 2017-04
The Surreal Life Of Leonora Carrington written by Joanna Moorhead and has been published by Virago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04 with categories.
The Surreal Life Of Leonora Carrington
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Author : Joanna Moorhead
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-04-06
The Surreal Life Of Leonora Carrington written by Joanna Moorhead and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 2006 journalist Joanna Moorhead discovered that her father's cousin, Prim, who had disappeared many decades earlier, was now a famous artist in Mexico. Although rarely spoken of in her own family (regarded as a black sheep, a wild child; someone they were better off without) in the meantime Leonora Carrington had become a national treasure in Mexico, where she now lived, while her paintings are fetching ever-higher prices at auction today. Intrigued by her story, Joanna set off to Mexico City to find her lost relation. Later she was to return to Mexico ten times more between then and Leonora's death in 2011, sometimes staying for months at a time and subsequently travelling around Britain and through Europe in search of the loose ends of her tale. They spent days talking and reading together, drinking tea and tequila, going for walks and to parties and eating take away pizzas or dining out in her local restaurants as Leonora told Joanna the wild and amazing truth about a life that had taken her from the suffocating existence of a debutante in London via war-torn France with her lover, Max Ernst, to incarceration in an asylum and finally to the life of a recluse in Mexico City. Leonora was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s, a founding member of the Women's Liberation Movement in Mexico during the 1970s and a woman whose reputation will survive not only as a muse but as a novelist and a great artist. This book is the extraordinary story of Leonora Carrington's life, and of the friendship between two women, related by blood but previously unknown to one another, whose encounters were to change both their lives.
The Lives Of The Surrealists
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Author : Desmond Morris
language : en
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Release Date : 2018-05-17
The Lives Of The Surrealists written by Desmond Morris and has been published by Thames & Hudson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-17 with Art categories.
No other art movement in history has contained two artists as different as Magritte and Miró. This is because Surrealism was not in origin an art movement, but a philosophical strategy. It was a way of life a rebellion against the establishment that had given the world the hideous slaughter of the First World War. Instead of trying to analyse the work of the Surrealists, bestselling author and Surrealist artist Desmond Morris concentrates on them as people as remarkable individuals. What were their personalities, their predilections, their character strengths and flaws? Did they enjoy a social life or were they loners? Were they bold eccentrics or timid recluses? Drawing on the authors personal knowledge of the Surrealists, this book captures their life histories, idiosyncrasies and often-complex love lives, vividly illustrated with images of the artists and their works. The arts of Surrealism were both spectacular and international, shaped by the darkest, most irrational workings of the unconscious. Shocking, witty and always entertaining, Morris tales illuminate the striking variation in approaches to the Surrealist philosophy, both in the artists work and in their lives.
Surreal Beckett
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Author : Alan Warren Friedman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-08-15
Surreal Beckett written by Alan Warren Friedman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Surreal Beckett situates Beckett‘s writings within the context of James Joyce and Surrealism, distinguishing ways in which Beckett forged his own unique path, sometimes in accord with, sometimes at odds with, these two powerful predecessors. Beckett was so deeply enmeshed in Joyce’s circle during his early Paris days (1928 - late 1930s) that James Knowlson dubbed them his "Joyce years." But Surrealism and Surrealists rivaled Joyce for Beckett’s early and continuing attention, if not affection, so that Raymond Federman called 1929-45 Beckett’s "surrealist period." Considering both claims, this volume delves deeper into each argument by obscuring the boundaries between theses differentiating studies. These received wisdoms largely maintain that Beckett’s Joycean connection and influence developed a negative impact in his early works, and that Beckett only found his voice when he broke the connection after Joyce’s death. Beckett came to accept his own inner darkness as his subject matter, writing in French and using a first-person narrative voice in his fiction and competing personal voices in his plays. Critics have mainly viewed Beckett’s Surrealist connections as roughly co-terminus with Joycean ones, and ultimately of little enduring consequence. Surreal Beckett argues that both early influences went much deeper for Beckett as he made his own unique way forward, transforming them, particularly Surrealist ones, into resources that he drew upon his entire career. Ultimately, Beckett endowed his characters with resources sufficient to transcend limitations their surreal circumstances imposed upon them.
Surreal Spaces
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Author : Joanna Moorhead
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2023-08-22
Surreal Spaces written by Joanna Moorhead and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-22 with Art categories.
An illustrated biography of the pioneering British artist and writer, tracing her life and work through the many places around the world where she lived The British-born artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) is one of the vanguards in the history of women artists and the history of Surrealism. The interests of this visionary—feminism, ecology, the arcane and the mystical, the interconnectedness of everything—are now shared by many. Challenging the conventions of her time, Carrington abandoned family, society, and England to embrace new experiences and forge a unique artistic style in Europe and the Americas. In this evocative illustrated biography, writer and journalist Joanna Moorhead traces her cousin’s footsteps, exploring the artist’s life, loves, friendships, and work. Leading readers on a personal journey across Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the United States, and Mexico, Surreal Spaces describes the places and experiences that would become etched in Carrington’s memory and be echoed, sometimes decades later, in her art and writing—whether her grandmother’s kitchen with its giant stove; a remote Cornish hideaway where she holidayed with Max Ernst, Lee Miller, and Man Ray; the Left Bank of Paris; an asylum in Santander, Spain; New York, where she lived among other European exiles; or Mexico City, her final sanctuary. “Houses are really bodies,” Carrington wrote in her novella The Hearing Trumpet. “We connect ourselves with walls, roofs and objects just as we hang on to our livers, skeletons, flesh and blood streams.” Featuring photographs, drawings, and paintings of the spaces that so richly influenced Carrington’s work, Surreal Spaces is an intimate and vivid portrait of a fascinating artist.
False Memories Adventures Of The Living Dali
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Author : Gabrielle Mallarme
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2005-03-17
False Memories Adventures Of The Living Dali written by Gabrielle Mallarme and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Praise for False Memories: "It was rich. Like eating a large slice of cheese cake with blueberry topping. I finished reading it today-did what it was suppose to do-kept my interest, created a deeper mystery surrounding the artist, brought up controversy, cleared a few questions, and much, much more. This will be a book, not just for collectors, but for anyone wanting to know a little about the psyche of a painter. Brilliant!" -Lynn Vermillion False memories is a psychologist's term for memories cleverly and conveniently created by the subconscious mind. Since the theory of reincarnation is not widely accepted, we tend to explain away memories of previous lives as false memories. Contemporary American painter Anton Brzezinski would be the first to agree that his own memories of previous lives are productions of his prodigious imagination-but Brzezinski's memories of his own experiences need no exaggeration to make them fascinating. In False Memories: Adventures of the Living Dali, with the exception of the pseudo-author Gabrielle Mallarm, people who appear as characters in this book are not fictitious. This is a work of fiction, but even the wildest incidents described here really occurred!
Salvador Dal And The Surrealists
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Author : Michael Elsohn Ross
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2003
Salvador Dal And The Surrealists written by Michael Elsohn Ross and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Artists categories.
Examines the lives and creative work of the surrealist artist Salvador Dali and other artists and friends who shared his new ways of exploring art.
Lives Of The Surrealists
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Author : Desmond Morris
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2018-05-01
Lives Of The Surrealists written by Desmond Morris and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-01 with Art categories.
Life histories of the Surrealists, known and unknown, by one of the last surviving members of the movement—artist and best-selling author Desmond Morris Surrealism did not begin as an art movement but as a philosophical strategy, a way of life, and a rebellion against the establishment that gave rise to the First World War. In Lives of the Surrealists, Desmond Morris concentrates on the artists as people—as remarkable individuals. What were their personalities, their predilections, their character strengths and flaws? Unlike the Impressionists or the Cubists, the surrealists did not obey a fixed visual code, but rather the rules of surrealist philosophy: work from the unconscious, letting your darkest, most irrational thoughts well up and shape your art. An artist himself, and contemporary of the later surrealists, Morris illuminates the considerable variation in each artist’s approach to this technique. While some were out-and-out surrealists in all they did, others lived more orthodox lives and only became surrealists at the easel or in the studio. Focusing on the thirty-five artists most closely associated with the surrealist movement, Morris lends context to their life histories with narratives of their idiosyncrasies and their often complex love lives, alongside photos of the artists and their work.