Fashion and Surrealism

Fashion and Surrealism

Author: Richard Martin

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780500275504

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Here are some of the most extravagant and ingenious images ever created in art and in haute couture- fruits of the love affair between fashion and Surrealism. Their relationship began in the Paris of the 1920s when Surrealist artists experimented not only with the fine arts but with photography, film and costume design.


Fashion and Surrealism

Fashion and Surrealism

Author: François Baudot

Publisher: Assouline Books & Gifts

Published: 2002-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9782843233784

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Fashion and the Surrealist movement have had numerous affinities from the outset of the latter. "Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all," André Breton declared in the thirties, a maxim that could serve as a motto for the world of haute couture. And fashion, the stuff of its creators' dreams, often is surreal in the true sense of the word: a shoe turned into a woman's hat, a glove with claw-like gold fingernails, a lobster dress... The Surrealists picked bourgeois fashion apart at the seams and gave it a taste for scandale. Today, the genius of Salvador Dali, Max Ernst and René Magritte continues to influence great coutiers such as Jean-Paul Gaultier, John Galliano and Serge Lutens.


Surreal Things

Surreal Things

Author: Victoria and Albert Museum

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13:

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Surrealism, one of the influential movements of the 20th century, had a profound impact on all forms of culture. Containing over 350 illustrations, this book examines its impact in the wider fields of design and the decorative arts and its sometimes uneasy relationship with the commercial world.


Surrealism and the Book

Surrealism and the Book

Author: Renee Riese Hubert

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1988-01-01

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780520057197

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"An indispensable tool ... for the student of Surrealism and book illustration ... [and] also for those interested in the complicated intrications between literature and pictorial movements from Romanticism to present-day Postmodernism"--Blurb.


Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement

Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement

Author: Whitney Chadwick

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 2021-11-23

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 0500777004

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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 struggled toward artistic maturity and their own “liberation of the spirit” in the context of the Surrealist revolution. Their stories and achievements are presented here against the background of the turbulent decades of the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s and the war that forced Surrealism into exile in New York and Mexico. Whitney Chadwick, author of the highly acclaimed Women, Art, and Society, interviewed and corresponded with most of the artists themselves in the course of her research. Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, now revised with a new foreword by art historian Dawn Ades, contains a wealth of extracts from unpublished writings and numerous illustrations never before reproduced. Since this book was first published, it has acquired the undeniable status of a classic among artists, art historians, critics, and cultural historians. It has inspired and necessitated a revision of the story of the Surrealist movement.


Drawing Surrealism

Drawing Surrealism

Author: Leslie Jones

Publisher: Prestel Pub

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 9783791352398

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Drawing, often considered a minor art form, was central to surrealism from its very beginnings. Automatic drawing, exquisite corpses, and frottage are just a few of the techniques invented by surrealists to tap into the subconscious realm. Drawing Surrealism recognizes the medium as a fundamental form of surrealist expression and explores its impact on other media. Works of collage, photography, and even painting are presented in the context of drawing as a metaphor for innovation and experimentation. This volume, in addition to brilliant reproductions of drawings and other works by approximately one hundred artists, includes a substantial historical essay and illustrated chronology by the exhibition's curator, Leslie Jones, as well as informative essays by leading scholars Isabelle Dervaux and Susan Laxton. It also encompasses the contributions of a wide array of artists on a global scale - from the great figures in surrealist history to lesser-known surrealists from Japan, central Europe, and the Americas, where the movement had profound and lasting effects on the arts. Drawing Surrealism, which will become a definitive resource on the subject, offers a deep understanding of the techniques and concerns that made surrealism such an intimate perceptual revolution.


Objects of Desire

Objects of Desire

Author: Mateo Kries

Publisher: Vitra Design Museum

Published: 2019-09

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9783945852330

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Surrealism expanded our reality by drawing upon myths, dreams, and the subconscious as sources of artistic inspiration. Beginning in the 1930s, the movement made a crucial impact on design, and it continues to inspire designers to this day. »Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design« is the first book to document this fascinating conversation. It includes numerous essays and a comprehensive selection of images which traces these reciprocal exchanges by juxtaposing exemplary artworks and design objects. Among the featured artists and designers are Gae Aulenti, Achille Castiglioni, Giorgio de Chirico, Le Corbusier, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, ntoni Gaudí, Frederick Kiesler, René Magritte, Carlo Mollino, Meret Oppenheim, and many others. The book is rounded off with historical text material as well as short texts and statements by contemporary designers. This in- depth examination makes one thing abundantly clear: form does not always follow function -- it can also follow our obsessions, our fantasies, and our hidden desires.


Surrealism

Surrealism

Author: Natalya Lusty

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-08-31

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9781108495684

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This book examines the salient ideas and practices that have shaped Surrealism as a protean intellectual and cultural concept that fundamentally shifted our understanding of the nexus between art, culture, and politics. By bringing a diverse set of artistic forms and practices such as literature, manifestos, collage, photography, film, fashion, display, and collecting into conversation with newly emerging intellectual traditions (ethnography, modern science, anthropology, and psychoanalysis), the essays in this volume reveal Surrealism's enduring influence on contemporary thought and culture alongside its anti-colonial political position and international reach. Surrealism's fascination with novel forms of cultural production and experimental methods contributed to its conceptual malleability and temporal durability, making it one of the most significant avant-garde movements of the twentieth century. The book traces how Surrealism's urgent political and aesthetic provocations have bequeathed an important legacy for recent scholarly interest in thing theory, critical vitalism, new materialism, ontology, and animal/human studies.


Art and Fashion

Art and Fashion

Author: Alice Mackrell

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2005-01-07

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780713488739

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"Takes a detailed look at the flow of ideas between the twin worlds of art and fashion, chronicling their close relationship. It charts a history of ideas highlighting key moments, from the Renaissance to the present day, when art and fashion interacted and influenced each other... This close synergy between art and fashion has continued into the 21st century, with artists working with themes that explore clothes and the body, and top fashion designers feted in lavish museum exhibitions."-- Back cover.


Surrealism, Feminism, Psychoanalysis

Surrealism, Feminism, Psychoanalysis

Author: Natalya Lusty

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780754653363

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Combining historical and cultural methods of analysis with sophisticated theoretical discussions, Natalya Lusty explores how women artists and intellectuals responded to the appropriation of 'the feminine' in Surrealism and psychoanalysis. Reading work by