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Item Number: 110960
Title: Surreal Objects : Sculptures and Objects from Dalí to Man Ray
Author: Pfeiffer, Ingrid ; Max Hollein
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9783775727693
Description: Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz, 2011. 28cm., pbk., 280pp., 395 illus., most in color. English text. Exhibition held at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Summary: The first monograph to focus on the three-dimensional works by the Surrealists. “As beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella”—this is how the poet Comte de Lautréamont describes a key aspect of Surrealist art theory. The strange objects and sculptures produced by the Surrealists manifest the interplay of bizarre contrasts, of a shaken reality that forges the subconscious and dreamy states. This is the first comprehensive publication to focus exclusively on the Surrealists’ three-dimensional works—about 180 of them in all. From today’s perspective, many of them seem surprisingly fresh and contemporary, not at all like historical artifacts. The selection presents more than fifty artists of the Surrealist period, including familiar names such as Duchamp, Magritte, Dalí, Picasso, and Man Ray, but also many other artists whose striking works are yet to be discovered by a wider public.

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