Between 1910 and 1920, Mexico was convulsed by socialist revolution, from which emerged a strong left-wing government that laid great stress on art as a vehicle for promoting revolutionary values. This book features approximately 130 prints by over 40 artists, including the three great men of Mexican art of the period.
This exhibition catalogue contains work that focuses on Dali's fascination with optical effects and visual perception. It examines his use of various pictorial techniques, photography and holograms in the pursuit of his ideas, and the ways that optical illusion affects the sense of reality.
Salvador Dali was one of the most famous and also one of the most notorious artists of the twentieth century, his flamboyant personal style establishing him as a showman in the popular imagination. This book presents both the major works that reflect Dali's preoccupation with film and material related to the key film projects on which he worked.
Accompanies a Hayward exhibition that draws its inspiration and much of its material from the magazine Documents . This book aims to re-invest some masterpieces with the vitality of the cultural and intellectual climate in Paris in the late 1920s. It reflects the confrontations between art, archaeology, ethnography, film and popular culture.
The volume contains an introductory essay by Dawn Ades, with scholarly research incorporated in a 'Dali Dictionary' in the entries on individual works, and in the chronology, which includes a quantity of new material.
This study of Salvador Dali's work asks what accounts for his popularity as an artist. Is it the accessibility of his imagery or his talent as a self-publicist?
Genius, anti-artist, charlatan, guru or imposter? Marcel Duchamp has been called all these. Arousing passion and controversy, he has exerted a great influence on art. This monograph, written with the support of Duchamp's widow, offers to challenge received ideas and misunderstanding.
Written by an internationally respected authority on the artist, this magnificent volume looks set to be the standard work on Dali for years to come. Published to accompany the exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice running from September 2004 to January 2005.
This publication, with thick cardboard pages and five double-page brightly coloured images from Lisa Milroys 2007 exhibition at Ikon, has a childlike quality that is reminiscent of childrens picture books. This echoes the dreamlike world explored in Milroys recent work, wherein the artist created a contrived landscape in the gallery, surrounding visitors with large-scale canvases depicting images
This text studies the crucial role photography played in the Surrealist movement. It shows how photographers enlisted into the service of subjective Surrealism their medium's very claim to objective reality, and presents fantastic and distorted Surrealist photographic creations.