Surrealism: Revolution by Night

Canberra, Australia: National Gallery of Australia, 1993. Softcover. Olive-green & illus. wraps, 330 pp., many illus., chiefly in color, weighs 4 lbs. G (Ex-library, with spine label and bookplate, cover edges are slightly worn, page edges are slightly tanned, illus. are still vivid and book is still good ... though this large thick pb is admittedly a tad unwieldy.). Item #136678

Issued in conjunction with several 1993 exhibitions in Australia, featuring selected works from a variety of surrealist artists from around the globe. Essays: Surrealism as Art / Dawn Ades -- De Chrico's Future / Murray Bail -- Shopping for the Marvellous: The Life of the City in Surrealism / Margaret Plant -- The Surrealist Collage: Marriage of Metaphor and Joy / Timothy Baum -- Lips of Coral: Sex and Violence in Surrealism / Ted Gott -- An Optic Parable: Surrealism and Photography / Helen Ennis -- The Pearl Divers of the Unconscious: Freud, Surrealism and Psychology / Kenneth Wach -- The Artificial Night: Surrealism and Cinema / Adrian Martin -- The Continuing Tradition: The Impact of Surrealism on Contemporary Art / Mary Jane Jacob -- Surrealism in Japan / John Clark -- Surrealism in Australia / Christopher Chapman -- Inhabiting the Littoral: An Interview with James Gleeson -- A Bibliographic Chronology of Surrealism in Australia 1923-49.

Sorry, this book is not available.
Notify me when this comes back in stock.