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Book Bloomsbury International Encyclopedia of Surrealism

Download or read book Bloomsbury International Encyclopedia of Surrealism written by Michael Richardson and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism

Download or read book The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism written by Michael Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 1883 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrealism is central to the study of 20th-century art, literature, film and photography, but its international impact has extended across music, theatre, architecture, fashion and design, as well as thinking about society and politics. The Encyclopedia presents the first comprehensive and systematic overview of surrealism internationally, covering the theorists, critics, novelists, poets, playwrights, screenwriters, painters, collagists, object makers, sculptors, and film makers who made the surrealist movement. Alongside articles on writers and visual artists, the Encyclopedia includes overviews of national surrealist movements, related artistic and intellectual movements, key journals, patrons and collections, detailed overviews of surrealism's influence across the visual, applied and performing arts, and analyses of the key concepts which underpin surrealist theory and practice. Volume 1: Movements Volume 2: Surrealists A-M Volume 3: Surrealists N-Z

Book The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism

Download or read book The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism written by Michael Richardson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2019 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1. The surrealist movement

Book The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism  Surrealists M Z

Download or read book The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism Surrealists M Z written by Michael Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism

Download or read book The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism written by Michael Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrealism is one of the most influential and popular art forms of the last century. It has shaped painting, literature, film, photography, music, theatre, architecture, fashion and design, as well as thinking about politics and culture. The Encyclopedia presents the first comprehensive and systematic overview of surrealism internationally, from its beginnings to the present day.Volume 1 includes overviews of national surrealist movements, surrealism's influence across the visual, applied and performing arts, and analyses of the concepts which underpin surrealism. Volumes 2 and 3 present an A-Z of both the significant and the lesser-known individuals - theorists, critics, novelists, poets, playwrights, screenwriters, designers, painters, collagists, object makers, sculptors, film makers, and photographers - who have made and continue to make surrealism. The volume concludes with a detailed overview of contemporary surrealist practice.

Book Phaidon Encyclopedia of Surrealism

Download or read book Phaidon Encyclopedia of Surrealism written by René Passeron and published by Oxford : Phaidon. This book was released on 1978 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Concise Encyclopedia of Surrealism

Download or read book The Concise Encyclopedia of Surrealism written by René Passeron and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Surrealism is as much an intellectual movement as an artistic one. Indeed, Surrealist painting, sculpture and objects are often the physical emanation of visionary, philosophical, moral and erotic systems linerated from the constraints of reality. This brightly coloured and comprehensive survey of the creators of Surrealist art places them in the context of their time and provides a bibliographical dicitonary of the major as well as the less well-known Surrealist artists and their precursors." - book jacket.

Book Historical Dictionary of Surrealism

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Surrealism written by Keith Aspley and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite surrealism's celebration of the subconscious and eschewal of reason, the movement was nevertheless concerned with definitions. Andre Breton included a dictionary-style entry for surrealisme in his 1924 Manifeste du surrealisme and later explored juxtapositions of the absurd and the mundane in the 1938 Dictionnaire abrege du surrealisme. To the mountain of literature that seeks to organize the far-reaching intellectual movement, Aspley (honorary fellow, Univ. of Edinburgh) adds this handy volume that organizes the breadth of surrealism into concise entries on artists, writers, artworks, and themes. A chronology highlights events that sparked the surrealist imagination, activities of formal surrealist groups, and exhibitions. An introductory essay and extensive bibliography are included. One of the few English-language reference sources about surrealism published in the last decade, Aspley's dictionary is useful for quick access to key terms and biographies. For a book devoted to a movement characterized by arresting visual imagery, the lack of illustrations is annoying. Even Rene Passeron's 1978 Phaidon Encyclopedia of Surrealism (CH, May'79) reprints artworks in color. For a richly illustrated and comprehensive history, see Gerard Durozi's History of the Surrealist Movement (CH, Nov'02, 40-1316). Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through graduate students. Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students. Reviewed by A. H. Simmons.

Book Surrealism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Giovanna Uzzani
  • Publisher : Visual Encyclopedia of Art
  • Release : 2012-12-16
  • ISBN : 9781566499804
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book Surrealism written by Giovanna Uzzani and published by Visual Encyclopedia of Art. This book was released on 2012-12-16 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrealism was born to affirm unlimited faith in the genius of youth." – Andre Breton Literary surrealism begins with the death of dada in 1924; a movement to liberate expressive form, to release the world of the subconscious, of dreams and nightmares, paranoia, suppressed eroticism, and the dark side of the mind. Humor, extravagance, cruelty and anguish "outside all aesthetic or moral preoccupations" recur in the art of Max Ernst, Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali, Paul Delvaux, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, Jean (Hans) Arp, Henry Moore and Man Ray among others.

Book Historical Dictionary of Surrealism

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Surrealism written by Will Atkin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Surrealist Movement is an international intellectual movement that has led a sustained questioning of the basis of human experience under twentieth- and twenty-first century modernity since its founding in the early 1920s. Influenced by the psychoanalytical teachings of Sigmund Freud, Surrealism emerged among the generation that had witnessed the insanity and horror of the First World War, and was conceived of as a framework for investigating the little-understood phenomena of dreams and the unconscious. In these territories the surrealists recognized an alternative axis of human experience that did not align with the rational, workaday rhythms of modern life, and which instead revealed the extent to which individual subjectivity had been constrained by post-Enlightenment rationalism and by the economic forces governing the post-industrial world. Against these trends, the Surrealist Movement has sought to re-evaluate the foundations of modern society and reassert the primacy of the imagination for almost a century to-date. This book offers focused introductions to numerous writers, poets, artists, filmmakers, precursors, groups, movements, events, concepts, cultures, nations and publications connected to Surrealism, providing orientation for students and casual readers alike. Historical Dictionary of Surrealism, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 200 cross-referenced entries on the Surrealist Movement’s engagement with the realms of politics, philosophy, science, poetry, art and cinema, and charts the international surrealist community’s diverse explorations of specific thematic territories such as magic, occultism, mythology, eroticism and gothicism. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about surrealism.

Book Surrealism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Giovanna Uzzani
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9788866370796
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book Surrealism written by Giovanna Uzzani and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, the history of world art is traced through its main events and periods, from the very first art forms up to the complex and diverse world of the avant-garde at the beginning of the twentieth century. 16 volumes containing the best of the world's artworks, from Egyptian masterpieces to Surrealist pieces, elegant Chinese and Japanese art, the Renaissance and Baroque periods, the entire Greek and Roman civilisations as well as the varied creations of the Medieval period.

Book Surrealism  Key Concepts

Download or read book Surrealism Key Concepts written by Krzysztof Fijalkowski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging from the disruption of the First World War, surrealism confronted the resulting ‘crisis of consciousness’ in a way that was arguably more profound than any other cultural movement of the time. The past few decades have seen an expansion of interest in surrealist writers, whose contribution to the history of ideas in the twentieth-century is only now being recognised. Surrealism: Key Concepts is the first book in English to present an overview of surrealism through the central ideas motivating the popular movement. An international team of contributors provide an accessible examination of the key concepts, emphasising their relevance to current debates in social and cultural theory. This book will be an invaluable guide for students studying a range of disciplines, including Philosophy, Anthropology, Sociology and Cultural Studies, and anyone who wishes to engage critically with surrealism for the first time. Contributors: Dawn Ades, Joyce Cheng, Jonathan P. Eburne, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Guy Girard, Raihan Kadri, Michael Löwy, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Michael Richardson, Donna Roberts, Bertrand Schmitt, Georges Sebbag, Raymond Spiteri, and Michael Stone-Richards.

Book Conversations

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  • Author : André Breton
  • Publisher : Marlowe
  • Release : 1993-01
  • ISBN : 9781569248546
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Conversations written by André Breton and published by Marlowe. This book was released on 1993-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The closest Andre Breton has ever come to writing an autobiography, Conversations--based on a series of radio interviews conducted with the founder of Surrealism in 1952--chronicles the entire Surrealist movement as lived from within, tracing the origins and development of Surrealism from the discovery of automatic writing in 1919 to the Surrealists' ideological debate with communism and their opposition to Stalin.

Book Surr  alisme

    Book Details:
  • Author : Giovanna Uzzani
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9788881176700
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book Surr alisme written by Giovanna Uzzani and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Platenboek over het surrealisme.

Book Surrealism

Download or read book Surrealism written by Penelope Rosemont and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of personal and historical encounters with surrealism from one of its foremost practitioners in the United States. "Penelope Rosemont has given us, better than anyone else in the English language, a marvelous, meticulous exploration of the surrealist experience, in all its infinite variety."—Gerome Kamrowski, American Surrealist Painter One of the hallmarks of Surrealism is the encounter, often by chance, with a key person, place, or object through a trajectory no one could have predicted. Penelope Rosemont draws on a lifetime of such experiences in her collection of essays, Surrealism: Inside the Magnetic Fields. From her youthful forays as a radical student in Chicago to her pivotal meeting with André Breton and the Surrealist Movement in Paris, Rosemont—one of the movement's leading exponents in the United States—documents her unending search for the Marvelous. Surrealism finds her rubbing shoulders with some of the movement's most important visual artists, such as Man Ray, Leonora Carrington, Mimi Parent, and Toyen; discussing politics and spectacle with Guy Debord; and crossing paths with poet Ted Joans and outsider artist Lee Godie. The book also includes scholarly investigations into American radicals like George Francis Train and Mary MacLane, the myth of the Golden Goose, and Dada precursor Emmy Hennings. Praise for Surrealism: "Rosemont is not delivering dry abstractions, as so many academic 'specialists,' but telling us about warm and exciting human encounters, illuminated by the subversive spirit of Permanent Enchantment."—Michael Löwy, author of Ecosocialism "This compelling and well-drawn book lets us see the adventures, inspirations, and relationships that have shaped Penelope Rosemont's art and rebellion."—David Roediger, author of Class, Race, and Marxism "The broad sampling of essays included here offer a compelling entry point for curious readers and an essential compendium for surrealist practitioners."—Abigail Susik, professor of art history, Willamette University "Rosemont's welcome memoir has a double virtue, as testament to the enduring radiance of Surrealism, and as a memento to the Sixties, revealing a sweetly beating wonderment at the heart of that absurdly maligned decade."—Jed Rasula, author of Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century "Artist, historian, and social activist, Rosemont writes from the inside out. Like a rare, hybrid flower growing out of the earth, she complicates, expands, and opens the strange and beautiful meadow where Surrealism continues to live and thrive.”—Sabrina Orah Mark, author of Wild Milk "In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Penelope Rosemont, long a keeper of surrealism's revolutionary flame, shows how a penetrating look into the past can liberate the future."—Andrew Joron, author of The Absolute Letter "Rosemont recreates the feverish antics and immediate reception her close-knit, sleep-deprived, beat-attired squad find in the established, moray-breaking Parisian and international surrealists. Revolution is here, between the covers."—Gillian Conoley, author of A Little More Red Sun on the Human: New and Selected Poems and translator of Thousand Times Broken: Three Books by Henri Michaux

Book Surrealism

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  • Author : Giovanna Uzzani
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9788881178131
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book Surrealism written by Giovanna Uzzani and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those poets, intellectuals, and European artists, many of them Marxists, who in 1924 were attracted to the magazine 'La Revolution Surrealiste' and to Andre Breton, recognized that the time had come to liberate expressive form, to release the world of the subconscious, of dreams and of 'pure psychic automatism'. They were willing to give shape to their nightmares, paranoia, suppressed eroticism, and to the dark side of the mind. The 'surrealism' defined by Breton was 'outside all aesthetic or moral preoccupations. 'Humour, extravagance, cruelty and anguish present in disturbing metamorphoses recur in the poetic outpourings of Eluard and Aragon, in the plays of Artaud, or the cine poems of Bunuel and Cocteau, as in the art of Max Ernst, Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali, Paul Delavaux, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, Jean (Hans) Arp, Henry Moore, Man Ray. And while it is easy enough to trace the beginnings of literary surrealism to the death of Dada, it is harder to trace its eclipse: the liberating effects of Surrealism were still enjoyed by the generation of artists following the second world war when action painting and the informal universe offered new horizons to explore. It helped shape the spirit of May 1968, when written large on the walls of Paris and elsewhere was the slogan 'All power to the imagination' echoing the speech made by Andre Breton in autumn 1942 to Yale University: 'Surrealism was born to affirm unlimited faith in the genius of youth'.

Book History of the Surrealist Movement

Download or read book History of the Surrealist Movement written by Gérard Durozoi and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2002 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the movement from its origins in the 1920s to its decline in the 1950s and 1960s, Durozoi tells the history of Surrealism through its activities, publications, and reviews, demonstrating its close ties to some of the most explosive political, as well as creative, debates of the twentieth century. Unlike other histories, which focus mainly on the pre-World War II years of the movement in Paris, Durozoi covers both a wider chronological and geographic range, treating in detail the postwar years and Surrealism's colonization of Latin America, the United States, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, Italy, and North Africa. Drawing on documentary and visual evidence--including 1,000 photos, many of them in color--he illuminates all the intellectual and artistic aspects of the movement, from literature and philosophy to painting, photography, and film. All the Surrealist stars and their most important works are here--Aragon, Borges, Breton, Buñuel, Cocteau, Crevel, Dalí, Desnos, Ernst, Man Ray, Soupault, and many more--for all of whom Durozoi has provided brief biographical notes in addition to featuring them in the main text.