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A Boatload of Madmen: Surrealism and the American Avant-Garde, 1920-1950 Hardback - 1995

by Dickran Tashjian

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  • Title A Boatload of Madmen: Surrealism and the American Avant-Garde, 1920-1950
  • Author Dickran Tashjian
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 424
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Thames & Hudson, New York
  • Publication date 1995
  • ISBN 9780500236871 / 0500236879
  • Weight 2.57 lbs (1.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.55 x 7.52 x 1.56 in (24.26 x 19.10 x 3.96 cm)
  • Category Art & Art Instruction
  • Library of Congress subjects Arts, American - 20th century, Surrealism - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 94060289
  • Dewey Decimal Code 709.04
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New York and London: Thames and Hudson, 1995. xx, 424 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Remainder mark/tail edge. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. *** "In 1932, against the troubled background of the Depression, the American art community had its first glimpse of the revolutionary art of the Surrealists. Combining a fascination for Freud's new symbolic language of dreams with a radical leftist utopianism, the Parisian movement galvanized an emerging American avant-garde. New galleries opened to exhibit the 'terrifying,' 'insane' works of Surrealist artists, and new magazines sprang up to publish a startling crop of Surrealist poetry, criticism, and vociferous attacks on mainstream culture and politics. Only four years later, a major Surrealist exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art catapulted Surrealism into the cultural limelight and the attention of high-fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. Soon the… Read more
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