Surrealism - Softcover

Caws, Mary Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714856738 ISBN 13: 9780714856735

Publisher: Phaidon Press, 2010

Synopsis

Unusual book

About this title

Review:

"Surrealism is a must-have."―Sarah Kent, Time Out

"An extraordinary, fascinating compendium: Mary Ann Caws has unlocked the gate to Surrealism's beautiful road."―Frederick Tuten, novelist and critic

"The large and well-captioned picture section [...] shows us how various the art produced by the movement was, from Dali’s sharp, mesmeric figurations to Miro’s strange constellation of images."―Frank Whitford, Sunday Times

"[An] attractive mixture of analysis, images and texts offers lively and fresh-feeling introduction."―James Hall, The Independent

"A darker side of reality is explored in Surrealism, a resplendently illustrated overview of four decades of subversion."―The Times

"A massive and well illustrated book which combines powerful and less familiar images... with iconic works."―Tribune

About the Author:

Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, English and French at the City University of New York. Her numerous publications include extensive writings on surrealist and modernist art and literature, and translations of major writers and poets, including André Breton, Stéphane Mallarmé and Tristan Tzara. Her books include Robert Motherwell: What Art Holds (1995); The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter (1997) and Picasso's Weeping Woman: The Life and Art of Dora Maar (2000). She has edited Joseph Cornell's Theatre of the Mind: Selected Diaries, Letters and Files (2000); Manifesto: A Century of Isms (2000); and Surrealist Love Poems (2002).

About this edition

• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0714856738
• ISBN 13: 9780714856735
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Eburne Jonathan