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Author: Whitney Chadwick
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500774056
Size: 23.84 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2017-11-14
Category: Art
Language: en
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Download PDF Farewell To The Muse Love War And The Women Of Surrealism eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A fascinating examination of the ambitions and friendships of a talented group of midcentury women artists Farewell to the Muse documents what it meant to be young, ambitious, and female in the context of an avant-garde movement defined by celebrated men whose backgrounds were often quite different from those of their younger lovers and companions. Focusing on the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, Whitney Chadwick charts five female friendships among the Surrealists to show how Surrealism, female friendship, and the experiences of war, loss, and trauma shaped individual women’s transitions from someone else’s muse to mature artists in their own right. Her vivid account includes the fascinating story of Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe in occupied Jersey, as well as the experiences of Lee Miller and Valentine Penrose at the front line. Chadwick draws on personal correspondence between women, including the extraordinary letters between Leonora Carrington and Leonor Fini during the months following the arrest and imprisonment of Carrington’s lover Max Ernst and the letter Frida Kahlo shared with her friend and lover Jacqueline Lamba years after it was written in the late 1930s. This history brings a new perspective to the political context of Surrealism as well as fresh insights on the vital importance of female friendship to its progress.

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Book Detail:
Author: Whitney Chadwick
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500777004
Size: 30.81 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2021-11-23
Category: Art
Language: en
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Download PDF Women Artists And The Surrealist Movement eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A revised edition of Whitney Chadwick’s seminal work on the women artists who shaped the Surrealist art movement. This pioneering book stands as the most comprehensive treatment of the lives, ideas, and art works of the remarkable group of women who were an essential part of the Surrealist movement. Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, and Dorothea Tanning, among many others, embodied their age as they struggled toward artistic maturity and their own “liberation of the spirit” in the context of the Surrealist revolution. Their stories and achievements are presented here against the background of the turbulent decades of the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s and the war that forced Surrealism into exile in New York and Mexico. Whitney Chadwick, author of the highly acclaimed Women, Art, and Society, interviewed and corresponded with most of the artists themselves in the course of her research. Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, now revised with a new foreword by art historian Dawn Ades, contains a wealth of extracts from unpublished writings and numerous illustrations never before reproduced. Since this book was first published, it has acquired the undeniable status of a classic among artists, art historians, critics, and cultural historians. It has inspired and necessitated a revision of the story of the Surrealist movement.

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Author: Mary Ann Caws
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262530989
Size: 22.31 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 1991-03-13
Category: Design
Language: en
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Download PDF Surrealism And Women eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. These sixteen illustrated essays present an important revision of surrealism by focusing on the works of women surrealists and their strategies to assert positions as creative subjects within a movement that regarded woman primarily as an object of masculine desire or fear.While the male surrealists attacked aspects of the bourgeois order, they reinforced the traditional patriarchal image of woman. Their emphasis on dreams, automatic writing, and the unconscious reveal some of the least inhibited masculine fantasies. The first resistance to the male surrealists' projection of the female figure arose in the writings and paintings of marginalized woman artists and writers associated with Surrealism. The essays in this collection explore the complexity of these women's works, which simultaneously employ and subvert the dominant discourse of male surrealists. Essays What Do Little Girls Dream Of: The Insurgent Writing of Gis�le Prassinos • Finding What You Are Not Looking For • From D�jeuner en fourrure to Caroline: Meret Oppenheim's Chronicle of Surrealism • Speaking with Forked Tongues: "Male" Discourse in "Female" Surrealism? • Androgyny: Interview with Meret Oppenheim • The Body Subversive: Corporeal Imagery in Carrington, Prassinos, and Mansour • Identity Crises: Joyce Mansour's Narratives • Joyce Mansour and Egyptian Mythology • In the Interim: The Constructivist Surrealism of Kay Sage • The Flight from Passion in Leonora Carrington's Literary Work • Beauty and/Is the Beast: Animal Symbology in the Work of Leonora Carrington, Remedio Varo, and Leonor Fini • Valentine, Andr�, Paul et les autres, or the Surrealization of Valentine Hugo • Refashioning the World to the Image of Female Desire: The Collages of Aube Ell�ou�t • Eileen Agar • Statement by Dorothea Tanning

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Author: Dawn Ades
Publisher: Getty Research Institute
ISBN: 1606061178
Size: 70.44 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2012-10-16
Category: Art
Language: en
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Download PDF Surrealism In Latin America eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This collection of essays—the first major account of surrealism in Latin America that covers both literary and visual production—explores the role the movement played in the construction and recuperation of cultural identities and the ways artists and writers contested, embraced, and adapted surrealist ideas and practices. Surrealism in Latin America provides new Latin American–centric scholarship, not only about surrealism’s impact on the region but also about the region’s impact on surrealism. It reconsiders the relation between art and anthropology, casts new light on the aesthetics of “primitivism,” and makes a strong case for Latin American artists and writers as the inheritors of a movement that effectively went underground after World War II. In so doing, it expands our understanding of important, fascinating figures who are less well known than their counterparts active in Europe and New York. Deriving from a conference held at the Getty Research Institute, the book is rich in new materials drawn from the GRI’s diverse Mexican and South American surrealist collections, which include the archives of Vicente Huidobro, Enrique Gómez-Correa, César Moro, Enrique Lihn, and Emilio Westphalen.

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Author: Penelope Rosemont
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292787693
Size: 24.18 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2010-07-05
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF Surrealist Women eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Beginning in Paris in the 1920s, women poets, essayists, painters, and artists in other media have actively collaborated in defining and refining surrealism's basic project—achieving a higher, open, and dynamic consciousness, from which no aspect of the real or the imaginary is rejected. Indeed, few artistic or social movements can boast as many women forebears, founders, and participants—perhaps only feminism itself. Yet outside the movement, women's contributions to surrealism have been largely ignored or simply unknown. This anthology, the first of its kind in any language, displays the range and significance of women's contributions to surrealism. Letting surrealist women speak for themselves, Penelope Rosemont has assembled nearly three hundred texts by ninety-six women from twenty-eight countries. She opens the book with a succinct summary of surrealism's basic aims and principles, followed by a discussion of the place of gender in the movement's origins. She then organizes the book into historical periods ranging from the 1920s to the present, with introductions that describe trends in the movement during each period. Rosemont also prefaces each surrealist's work with a brief biographical statement.

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Book Detail:
Author: Abigail Crompton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781760760274
Size: 77.59 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2020-09-29
Category: Art appreciation
Language: en
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Download PDF Truth Bomb eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. If anyone can teach us how to pursue the life and work of an artist, it is the artists in Truth Bomb. This compilation of pioneering and established women artists from around the world will motivate and empower you, challenge you to find solace in the shared human experiences of birth, death, love, anger, joy, sadness. Their sassiness will fire your spirit.Truth Bomb offers the very best commentary and insight into the incredible formation of diverse women artists while uncovering the power of taking a chance, pushing the envelope and ultimately not being shy when it comes to making a mark. It is a magical visual mash-up of images, memoirs, moments, interviews and inspirational beginnings as told by twenty-two leading women artists, including Beci Orpin, Mickalene Thomas, Kaylene Whiskey and Judy Chicago. Truth Bomb is an ode to art and artists and an attempt to decipher the mystery of creativity.

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Author: Desmond Morris
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0500296375
Size: 42.34 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2022-02-08
Category: Art
Language: en
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Download PDF The Lives Of The Surrealists eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A lively history of the Surrealists, both known and unknown, by one of the last surviving members of the movement—artist and bestselling 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 World War I. In The Lives of the Surrealists, surrealist artist and celebrated writer 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-two 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.

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Author: Howard Greenfeld
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 59.61 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2006
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF The Devil And Dr Barnes eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Biography of Dr. Barnes, one of the most colorful, bizarre, and visionary figure in the American art world in the last century.

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Author: Emily Dickinson
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 081950033X
Size: 64.17 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 1998
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Open Me Carefully eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Whitney Chadwick
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500774226
Size: 67.64 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2018-04-17
Category: Art
Language: en
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Download PDF Significant Others Creativity Intimate Partnership eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Biographies of artists and writers have traditionally presented an individual's lone struggle for self-expression. In this book, critics and historians, challenge these assumptions in a series of essays that focus on artist and writer couples who have shared sexual and artistic bonds. Featuring duos such as Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and Jasper Johns and Robert Ruaschenberg, this book combines biography with evaluation of each partner's work in the context of the relationship.

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Author: Jackson Pollock
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 9780870700378
Size: 74.18 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 1999
Category: Art
Language: en
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Download PDF Jackson Pollock eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Published to accompany the exhibition Jackson Pollock held the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from 1 November 1998 to 2 February 1999.

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Book Detail:
Author: Hans Ulrich Obrist
Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag
ISBN: 9783863352622
Size: 28.27 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2012
Category: Artists
Language: en
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Download PDF Tacita Dean eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Tacita Dean’s patient and sensitive approach to her subject matter is explored in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist in this collection of in-depth interviews. In her Berlin studio, at a conference and on a train journey they discuss her film portraits of architectural structures and personalities, such as Mario Merz, Michael Hamburger and Merce Cunningham, her fervent collection and reworking of analogue material-postcards, four-leaf clovers, albumen prints and the things that have informed and influenced her artistic output. The result is a broad and invaluable introduction to one of the most important artists of the time, full of fascinating anecdotes and insights into her working methods, illustrated with black-and-white images of her work.

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Author: Guillaume Apollinaire
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520243545
Size: 14.75 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2004-10-25
Category: Art
Language: en
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Download PDF The Cubist Painters eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This is a new, authoritative translation and critical edition of one of the twentieth-century's most important and poetically resonant books on Picasso, Braque, Cubism, and the beginnings of modern art.

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Book Detail:
Author: Frances Stonor Saunders
Publisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 1595589147
Size: 63.39 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2013-11-05
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The Cultural Cold War eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA—whether they knew it or not. Called "the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967" by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA’s undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA’s astonishing campaign to deploy the likes of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War. Translated into ten languages, this classic work—now with a new preface by the author—is "a real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period" (The Wall Street Journal), and its story of covert cultural efforts to win hearts and minds continues to be relevant today.

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Book Detail:
Author: Kati Horna
Publisher: Rm
ISBN: 9788415118732
Size: 52.83 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2013
Category: Photography
Language: en
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Download PDF Kati Horna eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of photographer Kati Horna, the Museo Amparo in Puebla has organized an exhibition of her work, scheduled to travel later to the Jeu de Paume in Paris and the Palau de la Virreina in Barcelona. The catalogue-book of the exhibition, published under a joint imprint with Editorial RM, represents a recognition of Horna's photographic career and is the first adequate single-volume treatment of her work. The book traces Kati Horna's steps from Budapest to Paris, Spain, and Mexico, following the career of a cosmopolitan figure in the twentieth-century avant-garde. It contains essays by Péter Baki, Jean-François Chevrier, Estrella de Diego, Juan Manuel Bonet, and José Antonio Rodríguez, as well as a chronology of Horna's life drawn up by Ángeles Alonso, a text by her daughter Norah Horna, and documentary material from her personal archive. The reproductions in the book, representative of all the genres practiced by Kati Horna, include hitherto unpublished images"--Publisher's website.

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Book Detail:
Author: David Bate
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100021348X
Size: 76.18 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2020-08-12
Category: Art
Language: en
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Download PDF Photography And Surrealism eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. David Bate examines automatism and the photographic image, the Surrealist passion for insanity, ambivalent use of Orientalism, use of Sadean philosophy and the effect of fascism of the Surrealists. The book is illustrated wtih a wide range of surrealist photographs.

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Author: Friedrich Kiesler-Zentrum Wien
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 49.75 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2003
Category: Architects
Language: en
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Download PDF Friedrich Kiesler eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Essays by Dieter Bogner, Friedrich Kiesler, Harald Krejci and Valentina Sonzogni.

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Book Detail:
Author: Brigitte Benkemoun
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606066609
Size: 62.87 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2020-05-19
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF Finding Dora Maar eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. “[A] spirited and deeply researched project.... [Benkemoun’s] affection for her subject is infectious. This book gives a satisfying treatment to a woman who has been confined for decades to a Cubist’s limited interpretation.” — Joumana Khatib, The New York Times Merging biography, memoir, and cultural history, this compelling book, a bestseller in France, traces the life of Dora Maar through a serendipitous encounter with the artist’s address book. In search of a replacement for his lost Hermès agenda, Brigitte Benkemoun’s husband buys a vintage diary on eBay. When it arrives, she opens it and finds inside private notes dating back to 1951—twenty pages of phone numbers and addresses for Balthus, Brassaï, André Breton, Jean Cocteau, Paul Éluard, Leonor Fini, Jacqueline Lamba, and other artistic luminaries of the European avant-garde. After realizing that the address book belonged to Dora Maar—Picasso’s famous “Weeping Woman” and a brilliant artist in her own right—Benkemoun embarks on a two-year voyage of discovery to learn more about this provocative, passionate, and enigmatic woman, and the role that each of these figures played in her life. Longlisted for the prestigious literary award Prix Renaudot, Finding Dora Maar is a fascinating and breathtaking portrait of the artist. This work received support from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States through their publishing assistance program.

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Author: Tom Phillips
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500292891
Size: 79.21 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2018-06
Category:
Language: en
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Download PDF A Humument Final Edition eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In 1966 the artist Tom Phillips discovered A Human Document (1892), an obscure Victorian romance by W.H. Mallock, and set himself the task of altering every page, by painting, collage or cut-up techniques, to create an entirely new version. Some of Mallock's original text remains in tact and through the illustrated pages the character of Bill Toge, Phillips's anti-hero, and his romantic plight emerges. First published in 1973, A Humument - as Phillips titled his altered book - quickly established itself as a cult classic. Since then, the artist has been working towards a complete revision of his original, adding new pages in successive editions. That process is now finished. This 50th anniversary edition presents, for the first time, an entirely new and complete version of A Humument. This edition includes a revised Introduction by the artist, reflecting on the last 50 years' work on this project, and 92 new illustrated pages. A Special Limited edition is also available: this presents a copy of the 50th anniversary edition in a clamshell box with a limited-edition print, signed by the artist.

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Book Detail:
Author: Huw Lewis-jones
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0500022569
Size: 73.24 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2019-10-01
Category: Art
Language: en
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Download PDF Archipelago eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Celebrate the three-hundredth anniversary of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe with this vibrant atlas in which an international gathering of illustrators conjure imaginary islands and castaway dreams. What is it about islands that is so alluring, and why do so many people find these self-contained worlds irresistible? Utopia and Atlantis were islands, and islands have captured the imaginations of writers and artists for centuries. In 1719, Daniel Defoe published his tale of a castaway on a desert island, Robinson Crusoe, one of the first great novels in the history of English literature and an instant bestseller. Defoe’s tale combined the real and the imagined into a compelling creative landscape, establishing a whole literary genre and unleashing the power of islands in storytelling. To celebrate the tercentenary of the publication of Robinson Crusoe, Archipelago presents a truly international range of leading illustrators who imagine they too have washed up on their own remote island. In specially created maps, they visualize what their island looks like, what it’s called, and what can be found on its mythical shores. In a panoply of astonishingly creative responses, we are invited to explore a curious and fabulous archipelago of islands of invention that will beguile illustrators, cartographers, and dreamers alike.

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