A Boatload of Madmen: surrealism and the American avant-garde, 1920-1950

New York: Thames & Hudson, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Just taken out of shrink-wrap, straight from the publisher, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder. Cloth covers, with sharp and distinct lettering to spine, with illustrated dust jacket. A Boatload of Madmen: surrealism and the Americn avant-garde, , published in First Edition state by the renowned art and cultural historian, Dickran Tashjian. Stated First Edition. From the personal library of the noted Sacramento-based art book dealer, and personal friend of the author. Square-looking, tightly bound, and clean and unmarked of interior. xx + 424 pp., replete with illustrations, full bibliography, notes, index. A superior copy, inside and out.According to the publisher’s blurb, “The American art community had its first glimpse of the revolutionary art of the Surrealists in the turbulent Depression year of 1932. Combing a fascination for Freud’s new symbolic language of dreams with a radical leftist utopianism, Surrealism galvanized an emerging avant-garde, New galleries opened up to exhibit the ‘terrifying’, ‘insane’ works of Surrealist artists, and new magazines sprang up to publish a starling crop of Surrealist poetry, criticism and vociferous attacks on mainstream culture and politics.”Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.