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A richly illustrated exploration of Mina Loy’s art and writings
Mina Loy (1882–1966) was one of the most iconoclastic figures in
modernism. A groundbreaking poet, she also left an indelible mark
in painting, drawing, prose, art criticism, and fashion. Mina Loy:
Strangeness Is Inevitable is the first book to examine the full
scope of her extraordinary career, demonstrating Loy’s
transformative impact on the visual arts as well as the literary
avant-garde of the twentieth century. Presenting dozens of Loy’s
paintings, drawings, and constructions alongside selections of her
poems and writings, this book gives a comprehensive overview of the
complex images and objects Loy created and situates them in the
larger context of her life and work. It explores Loy’s pursuit of
truth and beauty, arguing that her engagement with the emphatically
“unbeautiful” materials of the Bowery—such as rags and bottle
caps—reflects her questioning of truth. The book positions Loy
within the broader context of surrealist art; sheds light on her
relationships with influential figures such as Gertrude Stein,
Marcel Duchamp, and Wyndham Lewis; and addresses Loy’s enduring
relevance today. Featuring rare and previously unpublished
artworks, Mina Loy: Strangeness Is Inevitable reveals this
visionary artist’s extraordinary contributions as an image-maker,
writer, and cultural arbiter, introducing her work to a new
generation of readers and charting new directions in art history,
women’s studies, poetry, and modernist studies. Published in
association with the Bowdoin College Museum of Art Exhibition
Schedule Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine April
6–September 17, 2023
This pioneering book stands as the most comprehensive treatment of
the lives, ideas and art works of the remarkable group of women who
were an essential part of the Surrealist movement. Frida Kahlo,
Meret Oppenheim and Dorothea Tanning, among many others, became an
embodiment of their age as they struggled towards artistic maturity
and their own 'liberation of the spirit' in the context of the
Surrealist revolution. Their stories and their achievements are
presented here against the background of the turbulent decades of
the 1920s, 30s and 40s, and the war that forced Surrealism into
exile in New York and Mexico. With 145 illustrations in colour
Manipulation of the photograph is as old as photography itself. It
has embodied and enlivened political propaganda, satire, publicity
and commercial art, and created evocations of the 'brave new world'
of the future through surreal and fantastic visions. Photomontages
were made by, among others, the Dadaists, John Heartfield, El
Lissitzky, Hannah Hoch and Alexander Rodchenko, and many of their
works were reproduced for the first time in print when this
groundbreaking study was originally published. Revered by
academics, critics and readers alike, this new edition with updates
is still the only definitive guide to the subject. With 225
illustrations in colour
The third edition of this classic study, a thorough introduction to
one of the most popular and recognizable artists of the 20th
century. Salvador Dali was, and remains, among the most universally
recognizable artists of the twentieth century. What accounts for
this popularity? His excellence as an artist? Or his genius as a
self-publicist? In this searching text, partly based on interviews
with the artist and fully revised, extended and updated for this
edition, Dawn Ades considers the Dali phenomenon. From his early
years, his artistic friendships and the development of his
technique and style, to his relationship with the Surrealists and
exploitation of Freudian ideas, and on to his post-war paintings,
this essential study places Dali in social, historical and artistic
context, and casts new light on the full range of his creativity.
The year before he died, in what was one of the most difficult yet
prolific periods of his life, Paul Klee created his most surprising
and innovative works. In 1939, the year before his death from a
long illness and against a backdrop of sociopolitical turmoil and
the outbreak of World War II, Klee worked with a vigor and
inventiveness that rivaled even the most productive periods of his
youth. This book illuminates the artist's response to his personal
difficulties and the era's broader realities through imagery that
is tirelessly inventive-by turns political, solemn, playful,
humorous, and poetic. The works featured testify to Klee's restless
drive to experiment with form and material. His use of adhesive,
grease, oil, chalk, and watercolor, among other media, resulted in
surfaces that are not only visually striking, but also highly
tactile and original. Not unlike a diary, the drawings are often
meditative reflections on the pains and pleasures of life-their
titles, among them Monsters in readiness and Struggles with
himself, signal Klee's frame of mind. Renowned art historian Dawn
Ades looks at this group of drawings in the context of their time
and as indicative of a pivotal moment in art history. Moved by this
late period of Klee's oeuvre, American artist Richard Tuttle
responds to specific works in the form of a dialogical poem. This
stunning publication highlights the novelty and ingenuity of Klee's
late works, which deeply affected the generation of
artists-including Anni Albers, Jean Dubuffet, Mark Tobey, and Zao
Wou-Ki-that emerged after World War II and continues to captivate
artists and viewers alike today.
Genius. Anti-artist. Charlatan. Impostor! Since 1914 Marcel Duchamp
has been called all of these. No artist of the 20th century has
aroused more passion and controversy, nor exerted a greater
influence on art, the very nature of which Duchamp challenged and
redefined as concept rather than product by questioning its
traditionally privileged optical nature. At the same time, he never
ceased to be engaged, openly or secretly, in provocative activities
and works that transformed traditional artmaking procedures.
Written with the enthusiastic support of Duchamp's widow, this is
one of the most original and important books ever written on this
enigmatic artist, and challenges received ideas, misunderstanding
and misinformation. With 172 illustrations in colour
The Mexican revolution of 1910-1920 gave rise to an artistic
explosion that was felt most profoundly in printmaking. The
left-wing government viewed art as an important vehicle for
education and the promotion of revolutionary values. It established
a program to cover the walls of public buildings with murals and
set up numerous workshops to produce prints for wide distribution.
By the 1930s, Mexico was attracting socially committed artists from
all over the American continent and beyond, ready to do battle for
a new aesthetic as well as a new political order. Diego Rivera, a
key figure in the art of revolution, became one of the most
celebrated artists in the world.
Starting with works by Jose Guadalupe Posada, who was adopted by
the revolutionaries as the archetypal printmaker for the people,
Revolution on Paper features prints by thirty-five artists,
including the "Three Greats" of Mexican art of the period--Rivera,
Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. The selection
includes not only single-sheet artists' prints, but also posters
addressing social and political issues, and illustrated books on
many different subjects. Images of the revolutionary hero Emiliano
Zapata, scenes of poverty, hunger, and oppression, and posters
protesting against fascism and the war in Europe contrast with
representations of Mexican history and idealized rural life that
express what was regarded as typically "Mexican." Introductory
essays by Dawn Ades and Alison McClean set Mexican printmaking in
its artistic and political context. Concise biographies of the
artists, a chronology, and a glossary of printmaking terms complete
the book.
Art historian and curator Dawn Ades is a leading voice on Dada,
Surrealism, abstraction and art from Latin America. This volume
collects her important essays for the first time, addressing themes
fundamental to the history of modern art and the avant-garde.
Arranged thematically, this collection of essays represents the
breadth of Ades's critical and curatorial interests, ranging from
avant-garde poster design, to photomontage, to the representation
of the female in Mexico, but with an overarching foundation in
abstraction, identity and the influence of new mediums. As well as
working as a professor and curator - which earned her an OBE for
her services to art history - Ades has written on a wide range of
artists since 1980. Spanning the likes of Francis Bacon, Richard
Deacon, Salvador Dali and Hannah Hoech, this body of essays is
ingrained with Ades's consistently clear and intellectually
stimulating observations. To introduce the book, Ades is
interviewed by Doro Globus, who explores the writer's relationship
to curating, teaching and art history.
Accompanying a major large-scale thematic exhibition at Whitechapel
Gallery, this extensive catalogue charts the artists' studio
through the last century: as a laboratory or stage set; as place of
refuge, or a public space; as a site of resistance or an arena for
communal activity. Featuring over 80 artists and collectives from
around the world, the catalogue will focus in two sections on 'the
public studio' and 'the private studio', accompanied by six
thematic essays and full colour plate sections of works by
Brancusi, Fischli & Weiss, Roni Horn, Bruce Nauman, Cindy
Sherman, Andy Warhol, Nikhil Chopra, Gutai Group, Inji Efflatoun,
Francesca Woodman, Ai Weiwei, Marisa Merz, Faith Ringgold and
Francis Bacon, amongst many others.
Enrico Donati first found acclaim when the master of Surrealism,
Andre Breton, lauded him the savior of the movement in 1942. Donati
went on to exhibit with major figures of the New York School, such
as Rothko, de Kooning, and Pollock. Spanning well over half a
century, his artistic career was extraordinarily rich, and he was
associated with many of the most influential movements and groups
of artists of the time, but fundamentally he remained independent
and enigmatic. Dawn Ades acquaints the reader with Donati's
formative relationship to the Surrealists and then moves through
his postwar painting up to his death in 2008.
World-renowned for her work during the Weimar period, Hannah Hoech
was a pioneer in many aspects, both artistic and cultural. She was
the lone woman of the Berlin Dada movement - the riotous form of
art that deconstructed sound, language, and images to re-assemble
them into new objects, texts and meanings. Hoech was a pivotal
force in the development of collage, paving the way for today's
ubiquitous image editing techniques. A determined believer in
women's rights, Hoech questioned conventional concepts of
partnership, beauty and the making of art, her work presenting
acute critiques of racial and social stereotypes, particularly that
of her native Germany. Focusing on Hoech's collages, this book
examines the artist's career from the 1920s to the 1970s, charting
her oeuvre from early works influenced by fashion and mass media,
through to her later compositions of lyrical abstraction. It
reveals her rapid development of a personal style, which was both
humorous and often moving, but also offered critical commentary on
society at a time of tremendous social change. Included are essays
that examine themes such as the concept of the "New Woman" and the
legacy of German colonialism. Featuring international scholarship
on a groundbreaking artist, this volume brings together important
source texts and reference material, which were first translated
into English for the original edition of this book.
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Linder (Hardcover)
Dawn Ades
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Linder's photomontages violate, liberate and celebrate the human
body to question the mechanics of gender and its ties to consumer
culture and media. Linder is best known for her pioneering
photomontages that replace the sexualised imagery of soft-focus
pornographic centrefolds with commodities of domestic middle-class
life. Surprising, humorous, and at times shocking, these precise
compositions bring to light the powerful fantasies and repressions
that underlie our social expectations of identity. Spanning almost
four decades, this monograph interweaves numerous photomontage
series from throughout Linder's career, demonstrating the artist's
manipulation of disparate source material - from brightly saturated
male pornographic imagery to softly lit portraits of ballerinas.
Accompanying over 250 illustrations is a conversation between the
artist and renowned art historian Dawn Ades that reconciles her
provocative work with the longer history of photomontage.
Are women s orgasms more intense than men s? What did Andre
Breton think of homosexuality? Can love be separated from physical
desire? In 1928 a group of surrealist writers and artists held
twelve round table discussions to address these questions.
Calling them researches into sexuality, their bizarre and
humorous conversations are now made available in this new edition
in all their surreal and salacious detail. Their research spanned
the most critical period for surrealism, a time of bitter political
disputes, echoed in the intensity of these meetings and in the
range of participants, including Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Yves
Tanguy, Benjamin Peret and Pierre Naville.
Well before the so-called sexual revolution, their erotic
exchanges broke sexual taboos and encouraged surrealists to openly
share the libidinal themes they explored in their writing and art.
In doing so, JoAnn Wypijewski writes in the new introduction, they
are revealed as lovers and prigs, fantasists and humanists,
adventurers in mind if not always in flesh flawed, foolish,
brilliant, clangingly sexual human beings.
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Making Sense (Hardcover)
Lisa Milroy; Introduction by Dawn Ades; Edited by Jonathan Watkins
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Surrealism is one of the most influential and popular art forms of
the last century. It has shaped painting, literature, film,
photography, music, theatre, architecture, fashion and design, as
well as thinking about politics and culture. The Encyclopedia
presents the first comprehensive and systematic overview of
surrealism internationally, from its beginnings to the present day.
Volume 1 includes overviews of national surrealist movements,
surrealism's influence across the visual, applied and performing
arts, and analyses of the concepts which underpin surrealism.
Volumes 2 and 3 present an A-Z of both the significant and the
lesser-known individuals - theorists, critics, novelists, poets,
playwrights, screenwriters, designers, painters, collagists, object
makers, sculptors, film makers, and photographers - who have made
and continue to make surrealism. The volume concludes with a
detailed overview of contemporary surrealist practice.
Salvador Dali is perhaps the most universally famous and popular
twentieth-century artist. What accounts for this popularity? Is it
his excellence as an artist? The accessibility of his imagery? Or
his genius as a self-publicist? In a searching text, completely
revised and updated in this edition to incorporate new information
that has come to light since Dali's death in 1989, Dawn Ades
considers some of the puzzling questions raised by the Dali
phenomenon. His early years, the development of his technique and
style, his relationship with the Surrealists, his exploitation of
Freudian ideas, and the image which Dali created of himself as the
mad genius artist are all explored in this brilliant and thought
provoking study.
Reprint of the 1935 edition of a study that balances the different
manifestations of surrealism in order to see it whole, not just as
an art movement backed up by ideas. Gascoyne (author, translator,
and early champion of surrealism) also includes the movement's
ancestors, such as Dada. Part history
Cette etude innovante retrace le parcours de l'ecrivain, musicien,
dramaturge et peintre italien Alberto Savinio afin d'evaluer sa
place dans l'avant-garde parisienne. Elle examine l'apport
litteraire et la pratique de l'art moderne du frere de Giorgio de
Chirico, cet autre Italien adopte par la capitale francaise. Cette
etude couvre de maniere exhaustive l'oeuvre de Savinio durant la
periode 1911-1937, annee de publication de son roman
autobiographique Tragedia dell'infanzia. Elle replace ainsi
l'artiste italien au coeur de l'avant-garde et du modernisme, le
situant dans une lignee qui va d'Apollinaire a Marinetti et Breton,
entre autres. L'auteur demontre que Savinio, artiste
pluridisciplinaire, a participe activement a la revolution
artistique et a la recherche de " l'homme nouveau " qui ont
preoccupe les avant-gardes du debut du XXe siecle. Elle eclaire
ainsi de facon originale une dimension peu connue de la
contribution italienne a l'elaboration des idees et des pratiques
d'avant-garde a Paris dans la premiere moitie du dernier siecle.
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