Marvelous Objects: Surrealist Sculpture from Paris to New York
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Books › Art › History › Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
ISBN: 3791354655 / Publisher: Prestel, October 2015
This book presents an overview of the development of sculpture by artists who were inspired by the goals and methods of Surrealism.
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This book presents an overview of the development of sculpture by artists who were inspired by the goals and methods of Surrealism. Surrealist Sculpture delineates a dialogue between the two dominant modes of sculpture that evolved in tandem within the Surrealist movement: found-object assemblages and nature-inspired biomorphism. The book offers a continuousnarrative of contributions by both European and American Surrealist artists from the early 1920s through the early 1950s.Artists from France, Germany, Britain, Spain, Switzerland, andthe United States established Surrealism as transnational fromthe outset. Key artists who incorporated found objects in theirworks include Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Salvador Dalí, HansBellmer, and Joseph Cornell. The biomorphists encompassJean Arp, Max Ernst, Henry Moore, and Isamu Noguchi. Inaddition, Alberto Giacometti, Alexander Calder, and DavidSmith are highlighted for their game-changing innovationsthat influenced the evolution of modern sculpture. Nearlytwo hundred illustrations and a selection of historical textsaccompany the insightful essay and chronology by ValerieFletcher. Fans of Surrealism and those new to the genre willappreciate this book’s in-depth approach to its innovative andinfluential three-dimensional masterpieces.
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