Author: Ruth Brando
Publisher: Grove Pre
Keywords: surrealists, lives, surreal
Number of Pages: 554
Published: 2000-09-30
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 080213727X
ISBN-13: 9780802137272

Playful, amusing, frivolous, and bizarre. As Ruth Brandon points out in the preface to her marvelous Surreal Lives, surrealism has passed into everyday life as a byword for the strange. However, as this wonderfully exhaustive book point outs, the intellectual and political drive behind the movement was in fact highly revolutionary. What Brandon proceeds to unfold is a kaleidoscopic cultural history of the movement, which by 1924 had self-consciously adopted the title "surrealism," from its emergence in the midst of the ashes of interwar Zurich dada to its enforced relocation to New York in the

Author: Michael Elsohn Ro
Publisher: Chicago Review Pre
Keywords: activities, kids, series, ideas, lives, dali, surrealists, salvador
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 155652479X
ISBN-13: 9781556524790

The bizarre and often humorous creations of Ren� Magritte, Joan Mir�, Salvador Dal�, and other surrealists are showcased in this activity guide for young artists. Foremost among the surrealists, Salvador Dal� was a painter, filmmaker, designer, performance artist, and eccentric self-promoter. His famous icons, including the melting watches, double images, and everyday objects set in odd contexts, helped to define the way people view reality and encourage children to view the world in new ways. Dal�’s controversial life is explored while children trace the roots of some familiar modern im