Surrealism /

By: Klingsohr-Leroy, CathrinContributor(s): Grosenick, Uta [editor.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Basic art series 2.0Publisher: Germany : Taschen, 2015Description: 95 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 3836506734; 9783836506731Subject(s): Surrealism -- Europe | Art, European -- 20th centuryLOC classification: N6494.S8 | K6513 2015
Contents:
A new declaration of the rights of man -- Hans Arp : Concrete sculpture -- Hans Bellmer : The doll -- Brassai : The image as produced by automatic writing -- Giorgio de Chirico : Mystery and melancholy of a street ; The disquieting muses -- Salvador Dali : The enigma of desire or ma mere, ma mere, ma mere ; The persistence of memory ; Soft construction with boiled beans/soft construction with boiled apricots (premonition of civil war) ; Burning giraffe ; One second before the awakening from a dream provoked by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate -- Paul Delvaux : Dawn over the city -- Max Ernst : Approaching puberty or the pleiades ; The elephant of Celebes ; Loplop presents a flower or anthropomorphic figure with shell flower ; The king playing with the queen -- Alberto Giacometti : Man and woman -- Paul Klee : Room perspective with inhabitants -- Wifredo Lam : The jungle -- Rene Magritte : The key to dreams ; The door to freedom ; Time transfixed ; The empire of lights -- Andre Masson : The villagers -- Matta : Year 44 -- Joan Miro : Stars in the sexual organs of snails ; Collage ; Woman -- Meret Oppenheim : Fur breakfast -- Pablo Picasso : Composition with glove ; Woman in a red armchair ; Corrida ; Woman with foliage -- Man Ray : Le violon d'Ingres -- Yves Tanguy : The dark garden ; Day of slowness.
Summary: "With Salvador Dali as its figurehead, the great ship of Surrealism traversed the turbulent seas of the early twentieth century with sails billowing with dreams and desires. Inspired by the psychoanalytical practice of Sigmund Freud, the Surrealists championed the unconscious as the domain of truth, uninhibited by the standards or expectations of society. With techniques ranging from hypnotism to nocturnal walks to automatic writing, the likes of Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Brassai, and Meret Oppenheim produced paintings, drawings, texts, and films in which they sought to excavate their most intimate and primal instincts. The results abound with sexual fantasies, with mysterious, menacing creatures, and with the juxtaposition of seemingly contradictory objects or ideas. This book introduces the origins and the sensational legacy of the Surrealist movement, one of the most profound and enduring influences on film, theatre, literature, art, and thought."--From the dust-jacket front flap.
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A new declaration of the rights of man -- Hans Arp : Concrete sculpture -- Hans Bellmer : The doll -- Brassai : The image as produced by automatic writing -- Giorgio de Chirico : Mystery and melancholy of a street ; The disquieting muses -- Salvador Dali : The enigma of desire or ma mere, ma mere, ma mere ; The persistence of memory ; Soft construction with boiled beans/soft construction with boiled apricots (premonition of civil war) ; Burning giraffe ; One second before the awakening from a dream provoked by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate -- Paul Delvaux : Dawn over the city -- Max Ernst : Approaching puberty or the pleiades ; The elephant of Celebes ; Loplop presents a flower or anthropomorphic figure with shell flower ; The king playing with the queen -- Alberto Giacometti : Man and woman -- Paul Klee : Room perspective with inhabitants -- Wifredo Lam : The jungle -- Rene Magritte : The key to dreams ; The door to freedom ; Time transfixed ; The empire of lights -- Andre Masson : The villagers -- Matta : Year 44 -- Joan Miro : Stars in the sexual organs of snails ; Collage ; Woman -- Meret Oppenheim : Fur breakfast -- Pablo Picasso : Composition with glove ; Woman in a red armchair ; Corrida ; Woman with foliage -- Man Ray : Le violon d'Ingres -- Yves Tanguy : The dark garden ; Day of slowness.

"With Salvador Dali as its figurehead, the great ship of Surrealism traversed the turbulent seas of the early twentieth century with sails billowing with dreams and desires. Inspired by the psychoanalytical practice of Sigmund Freud, the Surrealists championed the unconscious as the domain of truth, uninhibited by the standards or expectations of society. With techniques ranging from hypnotism to nocturnal walks to automatic writing, the likes of Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Brassai, and Meret Oppenheim produced paintings, drawings, texts, and films in which they sought to excavate their most intimate and primal instincts. The results abound with sexual fantasies, with mysterious, menacing creatures, and with the juxtaposition of seemingly contradictory objects or ideas. This book introduces the origins and the sensational legacy of the Surrealist movement, one of the most profound and enduring influences on film, theatre, literature, art, and thought."--From the dust-jacket front flap.