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This definitive appreciation of Kahlo's career features gorgeous full-page reproductions and insightful commentary to illuminate connections between the artist's life and work. Few painters have been as celebrated and adopted...

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...

Sexual instinct, feeling of death, physical notion of the enigma of space.... these, according to Salvador Dali, are the great vital constants that make up the vocabulary of the language...

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...

Surrealism was a revolution. Unlike such other modern movements as cubism and geometrical abstraction, it was not based on purely artistic innovation; its aim was nothing less than the liberation,...

'Octavio Paz, the most eminent public and literary figure in Mexico today, in this probing book conveys his awareness of Duchamp as a great cautionary figure in our culture, warning...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

In swirling, surreal prose, the iconic artist Salvador Dali portrays the intrigues and love affairs of a group of eccentric aristocrats who, in their luxury and extravagance, symbolize decadent Europe...

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...

An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonate Why does Surrealism continue to fascinate us a century after Andre Breton's Manifesto...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...