SURREAL OBJECTS: THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORKS FROM DALI TO MAN RAY.

NEUFERT, Andreas.

ISBN 10: 3775727698 / ISBN 13: 9783775727693

Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag,, Frankfurt,, 2011

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First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 4to. pp 276. Original publishers plush burgundy cloth, lettered silver at the spine and front cover. Issued without dust jacket. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. As beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella this is how the poet Comte de Lautr amont 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 ISBN: 9783775727693 Fine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SURREAL OBJECTS: THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORKS FROM DALI TO MAN RAY.
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag,, Frankfurt,
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3775727698
• ISBN 13: 9783775727693
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art / Art Catalogues

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Synopsis

“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.