Morris, Desmond
Summary: Surrealism did not begin as an art movement but as a philosophical strategy, a way of life, and a rebellion against the establishment that gave rise to the First World War. In Lives of the Surrealists, Desmond Morris concentrates on the artists as people?as remarkable individuals. What were their personalities, their predilections, their character strengths and flaws?Unlike the Impressionists...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 MORSummary: As animators, puppeteers, designers, writers, or directors, Philadelphia natives and identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay are renowned for artisanal methods and unusual sources of inspiration. Described as 'Kafkaesque' or 'post-apocalyptically Bruegelian' their films are inspired by twentieth-century European visual and literary culture, especially the surrealist and expressionist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International Corp. 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: The documentary takes viewers on an eye-opening journey through the life and work of the great Salvador Dali and his longtime muse and collaborator, Gala. The film begins in 1929, a crucial year in Dali's life and career, as he joined the surrealist group and met Gala, and ends in 1989, the year of his passing. Using archival footage, images, and documents (many of them never before used in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SALSummary: Two French beggars on their way to Spain's holy city of Santiago de Compostela meet stigmatic children, crucified nuns, and others on their pilgrimage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MILAdes, Dawn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Art Institute 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.04 ADEMax
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MAXLeslie, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithmark 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.0406 LESTomkins, Calvin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time, inc. 1966
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.4 TOMSummary: A screenwriter, revising the movie he is working on, finds that reality and fiction are blurring together when some of the characters in his film are showing up in real life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Slipstream 2008Rosenthal, Mark.
Summary: From the Publisher: Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is a key presence in the history of modern art, and yet he is rarely seen or remembered in the context from which he initially emerged as an artist. When Calder became "Calder"--Well known for his signature mobiles and stabiles-it was due to a unique variety of presiding influences. His artistic parentage consisted of Marcel Duchamp, who provided...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Menil Collection 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 739.92 ROSErnst, Max
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameo/Abrams 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.3 ERNKahlo, Frida.
Summary: "Carlos Fuentes writes passionately and brilliantly about Frida Kahlo in the introduction of this book, which reproduces the pages and drawings of Kahlo's personal diary. Sarah M. Lowe, who wrote the commentaries and the essay, provides a more balanced view. Work is a curious gathering of thoughts and feelings, observations and annotations, and indeed makes the reader feel that he/she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KAHLO, FRIDA KAHRaimondo, Joyce.
Summary: An introduction to Surrealism which includes guidance for related activities as well as brief biographies of six artists: Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, Joan Mir, Merit Oppenheim, and Frida Kahlo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watson-Guptill Publications 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709 RAISecrest, Meryle
Summary: "The first biography of the grand couturier, surrealist, and embattled figure (her medium was apparel), whose extraordinary work has stood the test of time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHIAPARELLI, ELSA SECDescharnes, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.6 DESMagritte, René
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameo/Abrams 1996
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.9493 MAGWenzel, Angela.
Summary: Discover the world of Salvador Dali and how he paints pictures within pictures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prestel 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709.2 DALMarkel, Michelle
Summary: Ever since she was a little girl, Leonora Carrington loved to draw on walls, in books, on paper—and she loved the fantastic tales her grandmother told that took her to worlds that shimmered beyond this one, where legends became real. Leonora’s parents wanted her to become a proper English lady, but there was only one thing she wanted, even if it was unsuitable: to become an artist. In London,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019