Sluice Gates Mind Collaborative (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. From the Library of John Russell Taylor.

Leeds Museums And Galleries, 1998. First edition. Softcover. 112pp. Original navy-blue wrappers with pictorial dust jacket, light wear to covers, slight rubbing to the edges, internally clean and bright. A very good copy. 'Grace Pailthorpe and Reuben Mednikoff embarked on an extraordinary psychological and artistic journey. This book charts that journey and their complex involvement with the British Surrealist Group which ended in 1940 with their expulsion from the Group and their departure for the United States. In doing so it sheds new light on the history of Surrealism in Britain and on the nature of their highly charged process of psychoanalytic enquiry, the scientific programme that was at the heart of their artistic project. The primary focus of their research and resulting artwork was the use of paintings and drawings as instruments of deep psychic investigation.'.

Paperback. Condition: Near fine in wraps. First Edition. Three different items: 1. Sluice Gates 18 x 24cm 112pp near fine exhibition catalogue. 2. 14 x 18cm four page private view card from the Mayor Gallery, 1998. 3. 15 x 21cm 16pp exhibition catalogue and private view card for a show at Oliver Bradbury and James Birch Fine Art, 12th April - 12th May, 1984. Psychoanalyst Dr Grace Pailthorpe wrote that she was searching for a 'quicker way to the deeper layers of the unconscious than by the long drawn-out couch method' When she met artist Reuben Mednikoff her collaborator. they embarked on an extraordinary psychological and artistic journey that set about using 'art as a shortcut to the conscious'. The 'Sluice Gates of the Mind' charts that journey and their complex involvement with the British Surrealist Group which ended in 1940 with their expulsion from the Group and their departure for the United States.