Surrealism in Exile and the Beginnings of the New York School
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997. Hardcover. Color-illustrated sofcover with black and red lettering. xv, 466 pp. Color and BW illustrations. Good. wear to lower boards & corners. spine rattled; textblock detached from spine; appeas firm, hinges tight. pgs have instances of pencil notations & marginalia & light, yellow staining to edges. pgs 307/308 missing illustration/text. dustjacket highly scuffed; spine has soiling & foxing. Item #180863
ISBN: 978026692014
Covers and textblock have a spongy/flexible distortion; appears to be no dampstaining damage. Has the condition of a former student copy. This fascinating account of what was happening within Surrealism during the crucial years 1938-1947, Martica Sawin documents the cultural transfer that took place when the greater part of the prewar Surrealist group was transplanted to the Western Hemisphere. Eminently readable, clearly told, and biographically rich, Sawin's year-by-year narrative pieces together when and how the refugees arrived and their various points of contact with the future abstract expressionists. -Amazon.
OCLC: 799978460
Price: $29.97