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Item Number: 109210
Title: ANDRE MASSON : Monograph and Catalogue Raisonné, 1918–1941
Author: Ades, Dawn ; Guite Masson, Martin Masson, Catherine Loewer
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781555953300
Description: Manchester and New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2010. 3 vols. 31cm., hardcover, slipcase, ca. 2000pp., more than 2000 illus., many in color. Summary: From its beginnings in the 1920s, André Masson (1896–1987) was a key figure in the Surrealist art movement. He was a pioneer in the techniques of automatic drawing and biomorphic abstraction. Living in Paris in the 1920s, he collaborated with Surrealist poets and theorists, including André Breton, in their quest to subvert reason and to investigate the workings of the human subconscious. He also contributed illustrations to many important works of Surrealist literature and exhibited in the Galerie Simon, a gathering place for the Parisian avant-garde, which included Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein. His fascination with metamorphosis in all its forms not only informed Surrealist thought, but also provided the fuel for a lifetime of creativity. In these volumes Masson’s complex, poetic, and psychologically charged works comment on his years in Paris, his struggle against Spanish fascism in the 1930s, and his American exile from Nazi-occupied France in the 1940s. ^Forthcoming^.
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