Art Surrealism

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 215 pages. 151 illustrations, including 51 plates in full color, displaying beautiful realistic as well as surrealistic paintings. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 215 pages. 151 illustrations, including 51 plates in full color, displaying beautiful realistic as well as surrealistic paintings. Copy in mint condition. As good as new.

Hardcover. Washington, Prestel, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Softcover. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This book pays tribute to the mature work of Stuart Davis, a distinctly American artist who adapted European modernism to reflect the sights, sounds, and rhythms of popular culture. Beginning in 1921, a series of creative breakthroughs led Davis away from figurative painting and toward a more abstract expression of the world he inhabited. Drawing upon his admiration for Cezanne, Leger, Picasso, and Seurat, Davis developed a style that would evolve over the next four decades to become a dominant force in postwar art. His visionary responses to modern life and culture both high and low remain relevant more than 50 years after his death. Focusing on the images and motifs that became hallmarks of his career, this book features approximately 100 works-from his paintings of tobacco packages of the early 1920s, the abstract Egg Beater series, and the WPA murals of the 1930s, to the majestic works of his last two decades. The authors take a critical approach to the development of Davis's art and theory, paying special attention to the impact his earlier work had upon his later masterpieces. They also discuss Davis's unique ability to assimilate the lessons of Cubism as well as the imagery of popular culture, the aesthetics of advertising, and the sounds and rhythms of jazz-his great musical passion. Informed by previously unpublished primary documents, the detailed chronology is, in effect, the first Davis biography. Together, these elements create a vital portrait of an artist whose works hum with intelligence and energy.

Hardcover. London, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, White boards with pink lettering on spine; Color illustrated dj.; 362 pp.; 250 color, 100 bw illustrations. Accompanied a major exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum; Includes works by Salvador Dali, Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Max Ernst, Rene Magritte, and others; Extensive annotations; Great overview of the subject.

Hardcover. NY, Harper, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 324 pages. Surreal, the long-awaited, definitive biography of Gala Dali, unmasks this famous yet little-known queen of the twentieth-century art world, who graced the canvases, inspired the poetry, and influenced the careers of her illustrious lovers and husbands with tenderness, courage, and agency. Using previously undiscovered material, Surreal tells the riveting story of Gala Dali, (1894-1982) who broke away from her cultured but penurious background in pre-Revolutionary Russia to live in Paris with both France's most famous poet Paul Eluard and Max Ernst. By the time she met the budding artist Salvador Dali in 1929, Gala was known as the Mother of Surrealism. She rapidly became his mentor, muse, and protector, marrying him in 1934 and subsequently engineering their vast fortune. At a time when artists were celebrities, Gala acted as the ambassador of the Surrealist movement, spreading its popularity across the globe. Remainder mark to top edge otherwise clean copy.

Softcover. Edinburgh, National Galleries Of Scotland, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Foreword by Timothy Clifford and Richard Calvocoressi. Illustrated wraps. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 5 July-9 November 1997. Includes the work of Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso, Dali, Henry Moore, Munch and Magritte.

Hardcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. This intellectual tour de force draws on interviews with such key artists as Jean-Jacques Lebel, Mimi Parent, and Jean Benoit, and uses primary sources to advance our knowledge of the work of the better-known Surrealists, from Hans Bellmer to Meret Oppenheim. The Second World War, the Algerian War, and May 1968 are related in new ways to surrealism as a major countercultural force throughout this critical period in French history. By documenting the ways in which the Surrealists used sound, lighting, special effects, and performance art to create a living, theatrical environment, Dr. Mahon sheds new light on topics central to understanding art in our time.

Softcover. London, Tate Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 224 pages, b&w illustrations. Provides new Latin American-centric scholarship, not only about surrealism's impact on the region but also about the region's impact on surrealism. It reconsiders the relation between art and anthropology, casts new light on the aesthetics of 'primitivism,' and makes a strong case for Latin American artists and writers as the inheritors of a movement that effectively went underground after World War II.

Softcover. London, Virago, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 321 pasges, color illustrations. During childhood, Joanna Moorhead heard about a wild cousin called Prin who had fled their suffocatingly respectable family. When Joanna travelled to Mexico to find her, it was the start of a life-changing friendship, for her relative was none other than Leonora Carrington, the last surviving Surrealist. This book tells how, over tea and tequila, Leonora recalled her extraordinary life, her relationship with Max Ernst, her incarceration in an asylum, and her friendships with Picasso, Dali and Frida Kahlo.

softcover. Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 156 pages. Softcover with light fading to spine. Edgewear to corners, wrappers. Color pictures throughout. SPANISH TEXT.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 2nd pr., 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 236 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Price clipped dust jacket shows minor wear. Clean, tight copy.