Surrealism in Britain (Routledge Revivals) - Hardcover

Remy, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367145685 ISBN 13: 9780367145682

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

This book was originally published in 1999, and is the first comprehensive study of the British surrealist movement and its achievements. Lavishly illustrated, the book provides a year-by-year narrative of the development of surrealism among artists, writers, critics and theorists in Britain.

Surrealism was imported into Britain from France by pioneering little magazines. The 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London, put together by Herbert Read and Roland Penrose, marked the first attempt to introduce the concept to a wider public. Relations with the Soviet Union, the Spanish Civil War and World War Two fractured the nascent movement as writers and artists worked out their individual responses and struggled to earn a living in wartime. The book follows the story right through to the present day.

Michael Remy draws on 20 years of studying British surrealism to provide this authoritative and biographically rich account, a major contribution to the understanding of the achievements of the artists and writers involved and their allegiance to this key twentieth-century movement.

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Michael Remy

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367145685
• ISBN 13: 9780367145682
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 404