Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscape - Hardcover

Clayton, Eleanor

 
9780500028032: Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscape

Synopsis

Published to mark the centenary of Surrealism, this publication offers a new perspective on one of the most famous art movements with pioneering new research on its links with ecology and with politics

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About the Author

Eleanor Clayton is Senior Curator at The Hepworth Wakefield. Patricia Allmer is a leading scholar of Surrealism and teaches Art History at the University of Edinburgh. Anna Reid is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Leeds. Tor Scott is Curatorial Assistant at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and is writing her PhD on British Surrealism. Simon Wallis is the Director of The Hepworth Wakefield.

From the Back Cover

Published to mark the centenary of Surrealism, this publication offers a new perspective on one of the most famous art movements with pioneering new research on its links with ecology and with politics.

The development of Surrealism in the 1920s and 30s coincided with that of important new research and knowledge in the sciences, notably in biology. Forbidden Territories explores the unexamined interplay between Surrealism and life science, including the mutual influence of Sigmund Freud, illuminating ho

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