Author : Underground Robin
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 11,40 MB
Release : 2019-10-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781698167763
Urban Surrealism: The Art of Gregory Hergert exposes parts of the city that few want to see and many pretend don't exist. Yet, we still yearn to take a peek behind the blue tarp that hides this true under-belly of all life on the streets. This book by Gregory features his recent Urban Surrealism collection, which removes the tarp, exposing you to the grit, the dirt, and the darker side of what lies within any city.
Author : Christian Emden
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 36,36 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture and society
ISBN : 9783039105328
This volume is based on papers given at the conference 'Imagining the City' held in Cambridge in 2004. Together they examine the city as imagined space and as a matrix for imagined worlds, using French, German, English, Italian, Russian and North American examples.
Author : Susan L. Aberth
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,59 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Magic in art
ISBN : 9781848220560
Reprint. Paperback edition originally published: 2010.
Author : Elza Adamowicz
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783039103287
This collection of essays, inspired by André Breton's concept of the limites non-frontières of Surrealism, focuses on the crossings, intersections and margins of the surrealist movement rather than its divides and exclusion zones. Some of the essays originated as papers given at the colloquium 'Surrealism: Crossings/Frontiers' held at the Institute of Romance Studies, University of London, in November 2001. Surrealism is foregrounded as a trajectory rather than a fixed body of doctrines, radically challenging the notion of frontiers. The essays explore real and imaginary journeys, as well as the urban dérives of the surrealists and situationists. The concept of crossing, central to a reading of the dynamics at work in Surrealism, is explored in studies of the surrealist object, which eludes or elides genres, and explorations of the shifting sites of identity, as in the work of Joyce Mansour or André Masson. Surrealism's engagement with frontiers is further investigated through a number of revealing cases, such as a political reading of 1930s photography, the parodic rewriting of the popular 'locked room' mystery, or the surrealists' cavalier redrawing of the map of the world. The essays contribute to our understanding of the diversity and dynamism of Surrealism as an international and interdisciplinary movement.
Author : Thomas Mical
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,61 MB
Release : 2005-02-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1134343450
This is a historically informed examination of architecture's perceived absence in surrealist thought, surrealist tendencies in the theories and projects of modern architecture, and the place of surrealist thought in contemporary design. This book represents current insights into surrealism in the thought and practice of modern architecture. In these essays, the role of the subconscious, the techniques of defamiliarization, aesthetic and social forces affecting the objects, interiors, cities and landscapes of the twentieth century are revealed. The book contains a diversity of voices from across modern art and architecture to bring into focus what is often overlooked in the histories of the modernist avant-garde. This collection examines the practices of writers, artists, architects, and urbanists with emphasis on a critique of the everyday world-view, offering alternative models of subjectivity, artistic effect, and the production of meanings in the built world.
Author : Michael Remy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 042962719X
This book was originally published in 1999, and is the first comprehensive study of the British surrealist movement and its achievements. Lavishly illustrated, the book provides a year-by-year narrative of the development of surrealism among artists, writers, critics and theorists in Britain. Surrealism was imported into Britain from France by pioneering little magazines. The 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London, put together by Herbert Read and Roland Penrose, marked the first attempt to introduce the concept to a wider public. Relations with the Soviet Union, the Spanish Civil War and World War Two fractured the nascent movement as writers and artists worked out their individual responses and struggled to earn a living in wartime. The book follows the story right through to the present day. Michael Remy draws on 20 years of studying British surrealism to provide this authoritative and biographically rich account, a major contribution to the understanding of the achievements of the artists and writers involved and their allegiance to this key twentieth-century movement.
Author : Thomas Mical
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,30 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415325202
Twenty-one essays examining the relationship of surrealist thought to architectural theory and practice.
Author : Annette Leddy
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 45,45 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 1606061186
Consists of essays about the avant-garde journal Dyn, which was produced in Mexico in the 1940s - and its editor, Austrian painter and theorist, Wolfgang Paalen.
Author : Gerrit-Jan Berendse
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 26,4 MB
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1800730691
For many artists and intellectuals in East Germany, daily life had an undeniably surreal aspect, from the numbing repetition of Communist Party jargon to the fear and paranoia engendered by the Stasi. Echoes of Surrealism surveys the ways in which a sense of the surreal infused literature and art across the lifespan of the GDR, focusing on individual authors, visual artists, directors, musicians, and other figures who have employed surrealist techniques in their work. It provides a new framework for understanding East German culture, exploring aesthetic practices that offered an alternative to rigid government policies and questioned and confronted the status quo.
Author : Eamonn Canniffe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,94 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415348645
Looks at the development of urban design, focusing on four elements: the physical dimension of monuments and spaces, and the humanist dimension of patterns and narrative in cities.
