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The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
In 2006 journalist Joanna Moorhead discovered that her father's cousin, Prim, who had disappeared many decades earlier, was now a famous artist in Mexico. Although rarely spoken of in her...
Dali
Salvador Dali (1904-89) was one of the most controversial and paradoxical artists of the twentieth century. A painter of considerable virtuosity, he used a traditional illusionistic style to create disturbing...
Surrealism: The Dream of Revolution
Western art has evolved through a wide range of styles, each characterized by its own unique philosophy and masterpieces. This series is a visual tribute to these formative movements in...
Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism: Art Between the Wars
This book begins by considering responses by French artists to the First World War, showing how Purism, Dada, and early Surrealism are related to the ethos of post-war reconstruction. The...
The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self
Marcel Duchamp is a founding figure of 20th-century art and culture, the common source to which many contemporary movements trace their roots. His career has often been celebrated for its...
Surrealism
The character of Surrealism had been crystallizing over the previous five years when, in 1924, Andre Breton's Manifeste du Surrealisme defined the word. As conceived in those early days it...
A Look at My Life
'A thrilling insight into one of the 20th century's great artists. Agar's exuberant and colourful life and work come alive in this book' Katy Hessel 'A vivid panorama of an...
Dali: The Emporda Trinagle
The Empord triangle, like its notorious sister the Bermuda Triangle, outlines a space where unusual things happen. In this case, that space is the land surrounding three major landmarks of...
Compulsive Beauty
Surrealism has long been seen as its founder, Andre Breton, wanted it to be seen: as a movement of love and liberation. In "Compulsive Beauty", Foster reads surrealism from its...
Bunuel: In the Labyrinth of the Turtles
A fascinating portrait of a pivotal period in the life of Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel Bunuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles depicts a decisive moment in the life of...
The Living Stones: Cornwall
'Colquhoun's unique artistic vision shines through like at no time in recent history' - Art UK 'Colquhoun's time-travelling survey of Cornwall's culture and history brings ghosts and dead landscapes to...
Why Surrealism Matters
An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonate "Mr. Polizzotti carefully balances the movement's aspirations and attainments against its flaws and...
Dali
Salvador Dali (1904-89) was one of the most controversial and paradoxical artists of the twentieth century. A painter of considerable virtuosity, he used a traditional illusionistic style to create disturbing...
Wind/ Pinball: Two Novels
Discover Haruki Murakami's first two novels. Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami's two first novel - here they are together in one edition. Now I think...
Duchamp
Description: A portrait of the artist Marcel Duchamp, an influential and admired artist of the 20th century. Calvin Tomkins explores Duchamp's humour, his love affairs and originality, as well as noting...
Cicada!
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Now you slip away in sleep. Your boat is sea-mist, dreaming, by the shore. Spain's most beloved poet, Federico Garcia Lorca...
End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland
New to our Vintage Classics Murakami Collector's Library - a newly translated, unabridged edition of Murakami's most mind-bendingly brilliant novel. A special hardback edition of Murakami's surreal, mind-bending masterpiece, in...
Secret Rendezvous
A Kafaesque marvel and a biting satire of bureaucracy, medicine and modern life In Tokyo, in the middle of the night, an uncalled-for ambulance arrives to spirit away a man's...
The Box Man
Kobo Abe's existential and entertaining masterpiece 'This is the record of a box man' The streets of Tokyo have been seeing a strange phenomenon recently - people who have decided...
The Dictionary of Animal Languages
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Author: Heidi SopinkaFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 320 pagesPublished: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, 2019We grant men a right to solitude. Why can't we do the same for women? Ivory Frame...
The Lives of the Surrealists
Author: Desmond MorrisFormat: Paperback, 165mm x 240mm, 550g, 272 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021No other art movement in history has contained two artists as different as Magritte...
The Duchamp Dictionary
Author: Thomas GirstFormat: Hardback, 143mm x 210mm, 480g, 224 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) has entered mainstream culture as one of the founding fathers of...