English and American Surrealist Poetry. Ed., Intr. by Edward B. Germain
Title | English and American Surrealist Poetry. Ed., Intr. by Edward B. Germain PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 1978 |
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English and American Surrealist Poetry
Title | English and American Surrealist Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Edward B. Germain |
Publisher | Penguin Classics |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Art |
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The Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies
Title | The Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies PDF eBook |
Author | William A. Katz |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780231101042 |
Reference guide to poetry anthologies with descriptions and evaluations of each anthology.
Surrealism in Britain
Title | Surrealism in Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Remy |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 2019-09-10 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 042962719X |
This book was originally published in 1999, and is the first comprehensive study of the British surrealist movement and its achievements. Lavishly illustrated, the book provides a year-by-year narrative of the development of surrealism among artists, writers, critics and theorists in Britain. Surrealism was imported into Britain from France by pioneering little magazines. The 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London, put together by Herbert Read and Roland Penrose, marked the first attempt to introduce the concept to a wider public. Relations with the Soviet Union, the Spanish Civil War and World War Two fractured the nascent movement as writers and artists worked out their individual responses and struggled to earn a living in wartime. The book follows the story right through to the present day. Michael Remy draws on 20 years of studying British surrealism to provide this authoritative and biographically rich account, a major contribution to the understanding of the achievements of the artists and writers involved and their allegiance to this key twentieth-century movement.
The Scandalous Eye
Title | The Scandalous Eye PDF eBook |
Author | Silvano Levy |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780853235590 |
Conroy Maddox discovered surrealism by chance in 1935 and spent the rest of his life exploring its potential through his paintings, collages, photographs, objects and texts. Inspired by artists such as Max Ernst, Oscar Dominguez and Salvador Dalí, he rejected academic painting in favor of techniques that expressed the surrealist spirit of rebellion. Maddox went on to become a rebel in every sense – the defiance that had initially turned towards aesthetics became a broader challenge against morality, religion and the establishment as a whole. Maddox’s colorful exploits and outstanding artistic production undoubtedly made him Britain’s most beguiling, provocative and vigorous exponent of surrealism. This book maps out his place in the history of the surrealist movement and reveals the intellectual complexity as well as the poignant charm of an oeuvre that spans eight decades.
American Book Publishing Record
Title | American Book Publishing Record PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1320 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | United States |
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Len Lye
Title | Len Lye PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Horrocks |
Publisher | Auckland University Press |
Pages | 510 |
Release | 2013-11-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1775581098 |
Len Lye: A Biography tells for the first time the story of a unique, charismatic artist who was an innovator in many areas&– film, kinetic sculpture, painting, photography and poetry. Born in New Zealand in 1901, Len Lye gained an international reputation in the arts and had friendships with many famous people&– including Dylan Thomas, Robert Graves, Gertrude Stein, John Grierson, Norman McLaren, Oskar Fischinger, John Cage, Robert Creeley, Laura Riding, Stan Brakhage, and the artists of the New York School. A colorful bohemian, Lye lived in London from 1926 to 1944 (where he made highly original hand-painted films for John Grierson's GPO Film Unit), then moved to New York for the last 36 years of his life. Describing Len Lye as a "trailblazer" and a "one-man modern art movement" in Sight & Sound, Ian Francis also celebrated this superb biography as "the definitive piece of Lye scholarship."