surrealism

Showcases masterworks by three painters of fantasy art, including Chagall, Klee, and Magritte, providing details about their individual styles, techniques, and subjects, and challenging viewers to identify the artist of featured paintings.

Charles Singulier wears a magic hat which takes him on a surrealist non-linear tour of aspects of the life of painter Ren? Magritte.

Nuri the barber disappears in the middle of the night, leaving the small but prosperous Turkish village in turmoil. In a town very far away, Nuri walks into a barbershop with a dream-like and fractured memory. Subsequently, the other patrons of the barbershop experience a similar experience.

Presents a full-color facsimile of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's illustrated journal in which she recorded her thoughts, poems, dreams, and drawings during the last ten years of her life, from 1944 to 1954, followed by a complete English translation, commentaries on the images, and an introductory essay.

Presents information about surrealist art, including what it is, who were its important figures, and the movement's historical context.

Presents an introduction to Salvador Dali and the Surrealists, examining his life and creative work, as well as the artists who shared his new ways of exploring art. Includes illustrations and photographs.

"This is the first book in English to survey the life and work of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (born 1917). Carrington burst onto the Surrealist scene in 1936, when, as a precocious nineteen-year-old debutante, she escaped the stultifying demands of her wealthy English family by running away to Paris with her lover Max Ernst. She was immediately championed by Andre Breton, who responded enthusiastically to her fantastical, dark and satirical writing style and her interest in fairy tales and the occult. Her stories were included in Surrealist publications, and her paintings in the Surrealists' exhibitions. After the dramas and tragic separations of the Second World War, Carrington ended up in the 1940s as part of the circle of Surrealist European emigres living in Mexico City. Close friends with Luis Bunuel, Benjamin Peret, Octavio Paz and a host of both expatriate Surrealists and Mexican modernists, Carrington was at the centre of Mexican cultural life, while still maintaining her European connections. Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art provides an overview of this artist's rich body of work. The author considers Carrington's preoccupation with alchemy and the occult, and explores the influence of indigenous Mexican culture and beliefs on her production."--Book jacket.