| Description |
1 online resource (405 pages) |
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Routledge Revivals |
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Routledge revivals.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Foreword; 1 Exits and entrances; 2 The entry of the mediums: the establishment of surrealism in Britain 1932-6; Paul Nash and Unit One; Hugh Sykes Davies and David Gascoyne; Len Lye and Humphrey Jennings; British artists in Paris: Penrose, Trevelyan, Agar and Banting; Henry Moore; Publications and meetings; The International Surrealist Exhibition; 3 Communicating vessels: formation and growth 1936-7; Art and politics; Surrealist Objects and Poems; Axis and Circle; David Gascoyne; John Banting |
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Paul NashHenry Moore; Roland Penrose; Julian Trevelyan; Eileen Agar; 4 Spirit levels, level spirits: the years of definition 1938-40; The Road is Wider than Long; Samuel Haile; Ceri Richards; Eileen Agar; Henry Moore; Roland Penrose; Humphrey Jennings; F.E. McWilliam; Conroy Maddox and John Melville; Ithell Colquhoun; Grace Pailthorpe and Reuben Mednikoff; 5 The eye of the hurricane: the war years 1940-45; Division in the ranks; Gordon Onslow-Ford and Conroy Maddox; Toni del Renzio; Ithell Colquhoun, Emmy Bridgwater and Edith Rimmington; John Tunnard; Grace Pailthorpe and Reuben Mednikoff |
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Apocalypticism6 Watchman, What of the Night?: the Free Unions years 1945-51; George Melly; Activity resumed; John Banting and Conroy Maddox; Emmy Bridgwater; Edith Rimmington; Roland Penrose; F.E. McWilliam; Eileen Agar; Samuel Haile; Ithell Colquhoun; 'Scottie' Wilson; Desmond Morris; Postscript: the search for a fading prospect; Notes; Select bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book was originally published in 1999, andis the first comprehensive study of the British surrealist movement and its achievements. Lavishly illustrated, the book provides a year-by-year narrative of the development of surrealism among artists, writers, critics and theorists in Britain. Surrealism was imported into Britain from France by pioneering little magazines. The 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London, put together by Herbert Read and Roland Penrose, marked the first attempt to introduce the concept to a wider public. Relations with the Soviet Union, the Spanish Civil War and World War Two fractured the nascent movement as writers and artists worked out their individual responses and struggled to earn a living in wartime. The book follows the story right through to the present day. Michael Remy draws on 20 years of studying British surrealism to provide this authoritative and biographically rich account, a major contribution to the understanding of the achievements of the artists and writers involved and their allegiance to this key twentieth-century movement |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Surrealism -- Great Britain
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Art, British -- 20th century.
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ART -- General.
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ART -- History -- General.
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Art, British
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Surrealism
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429628832 |
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0429628838 |
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9780429032370 |
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0429032374 |
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9780429625558 |
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0429625553 |
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9780429627194 |
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042962719X |
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