A home for surrealism: fantasic painting in midcentury Chicago

Chicago has for decades been one of the most prominent cities where European surrealism is avidly collected and displayed. However, there has yet to be a scholarly exhibition and catalogue that addresses the local manifestations of this international mode of art. This book focuses on a select group...

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Main Authors: Mileaf, Janine A. 19XX- (Author, Editor), Cozzolino, Robert 1970- (Author), Jolles, Adam 1970- (Author), Pawlik, Joanna 1979- (Author), Sarvé-Tarr, Marin (Author)
Other Authors: Rossen, Susan F. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago The Arts Club of Chicago [2018]
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Summary:Chicago has for decades been one of the most prominent cities where European surrealism is avidly collected and displayed. However, there has yet to be a scholarly exhibition and catalogue that addresses the local manifestations of this international mode of art. This book focuses on a select group of painters whose work in the 1940s and 50's both transformed the domestic and domesticated the surrealist, particularly in Chicago. Working independently, but within a chain of social and artistic relationships, this group explored the interior as a site of projected imagination and fantasy, and the self as the generator of such altered perception. Including contributions by Robert Cozzolino, Adam Jolles, and Joanna Pawlik, the book provides a richly illustrated account of an international movement's unlikely - but somehow ever so fitting - home in America. Exhibition: The Arts Club of Chicago, USA (7.6. - 22.8.2018)
Item Description:Includes works by, biographies and bibliographies on Gertrude Abercrombie, Ivan Albright, Eldzier Cortor, Julio de Diego, Harold Noecker, Dorothea Tanning, Julia Thecla, and John Henry Wilde
Physical Description:135 Seiten
ISBN:9781891925498
1891925490