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  • Investigating Sex

    Surrealist Research 1928-1932

    by Dawn Ades ...
    In January 1928, the surrealists initiated their remarkable “researches into sexuality” with a series of round-table conversations involving key figures such as André Breton, Yves Tanguy, Louis Aragon, Man Ray, Max Ernst and Antonin Artaud. The transcripts, in all their bizarre and fascinating detail, are presented here. While there is plenty of humor—not all of it intentional—the speakers were ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Marcel Duchamp

    by Dawn Ades, Neil Cox, David Hopkins ...
    Series series World of Art
    A revised and expanded edition of one of the most original books ever written on the enigmatic artist Marcel Duchamp.Genius, anti-artist, charlatan, guru, impostor? Since he arrived on the scene in 1914, Marcel Duchamp has been called all of these. Almost no other artist of the twentieth century has inspired more passion and controversy, nor exerted a greater influence on art. At the same time, ... Read more

    $13.89 USD

  • Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement

    by Whitney Chadwick ...
    A revised edition of Whitney Chadwick’s seminal work on the women artists who shaped the Surrealist art movement.This pioneering book stands as the most comprehensive treatment of the lives, ideas, and art works of the remarkable group of women who were an essential part of the Surrealist movement. Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, and Dorothea Tanning, among many others, embodied their age as they ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Dalí (Third) (World of Art)

    by Dawn Ades ...
    Series Book 0 - World of Art
    The third edition of this classic study, a complete introduction to one of the most popular and recognizable artists of the 20th century.Salvador Dalí was, and remains, among the most universally recognizable artists of the twentieth century. What accounts for this popularity? His excellence as an artist? Or his genius as a self-publicist?In this searching text, partly based on interviews with the ... Read more

    $13.89 USD

  • Photomontage (Second) (World of Art)

    by Dawn Ades ...
    Series Book 0 - World of Art
    A fully updated new edition of this classic in-depth study of the pioneering art form of photomontage by renowned art historian Dawn Ades.Manipulation of the photograph is as old as photography itself. It has embodied and enlivened political propaganda, satire, and commercial art and helped visualize the “brave new world” of the future through surreal and fantastic images. Photomontage has been ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • First Adventure to Final Flight

    The Theatre of Tristan Tzara

    by Erica O'Neill, Timothy Mathews, Dawn Ades ...
    Series Book 6 - Art and Thought / Art et pensée
    To date, little research has been carried out on the complete theatrical works of Tristan Tzara, co-founder of the Dada movement. This volume provides the first comprehensive account of Tzara’s works for the stage. It addresses his distinct approach to theatre across his career and examines to what extent his dadaist and, latterly, surrealist principles are embodied in his stagecraft, both during ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

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  • Dada and Surrealism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Hopkins ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art, with its obsession with sexuality, fetishism, and shock tactics. In this new treatment of the subject, Hopkins focuses on the many debates surrounding these movements: the Marquis de Sade's Surrealist deification, issues of quality (How good is Dali?), the idea ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Artifice and The Ideal: Classical Figuration Today

    by Elsie Russell ...
    A survey and history of contemporary classical painting and the role that the classical arts of the past played in shaping its development. ... Read more

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  • Style and Civilization

    Realism

    by Linda Nochlin ...
    Setting Realism in its social and historical context, the author discusses the crucial paradox posed by Realist works of art - notably in the revolutionary paintings of Courbet, the works of Manet, Degas and Monet, of the Pre-Raphaelites and other English, American, German and Italian Realists. ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Art of the 20th century

    by Dorothea Eimert ...
    The 20th century was a revolutionary period in art history. In the span of a few short years, Modernism exploded into being, disrupting centuries of classical figurative tradition to create something entirely new. This astoundingly thorough survey of art's modern era showcases all of the key artistic movements of the 20th century, from Fauvism to Pop Art, featuring illustrative examples of some of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Histories of the Immediate Present

    Inventing Architectural Modernism

    by Anthony Vidler ...
    Series series Writing Architecture
    How the different narratives of four historians of architectural modernism—Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri—advanced specific versions of modernism.Architecture, at least since the beginning of the twentieth century, has suspended historical references in favor of universalized abstraction. In the decades after the Second World War, when architectural historians began ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • René Magritte

    Selected Writings

    by René Magritte ...
    Translated by Jo Levy ...
    Available for the first time in an English translation, this selection of René Magritte’s writings gives non-Francophone readers the chance to encounter the many incarnations of the renowned Belgian painter—the artist, the man, the aspiring noirist, the fire-breathing theorist—in his own words. Through whimsical personal letters, biting apologia, appreciations of fellow artists, pugnacious ... Read more

    $21.59 USD