Dada & Surrealism
A stimulating introduction to this 20th-century art movement.
Matthew Gale
- A stimulating introduction to this 20th-century art movement that emerged from the disillusionment and questioning of accepted values
- Explores the work of a wide range of artists, from Marcel Duchamp and Raoul Hausmann to Max Ernst, René Magritte and Salvador Dalí
- Uses paintings, collages, sculptures, assemblages, photographs, photomontages, film stills and graphics to illustrate the rich variety of Dada and Surrealist art
- The first book to portray many of these works in colour
Paperback
160 x 220 mm, 6 1/4 x 8 3/4 in
448 pp
183 colour illustrations
48 black and white illustrations
ISBN 9780714832616
0714832618
This stimulating introductory survey traces the origins and development of these two roughly parallel revolutionary twentieth-century art movements, exploring the full range of artistic production, including film, photography, collage, painting, graphics and object making.
Matthew Gale skilfully places the art within a context of ideas ranging from the disillusionment and questioning of accepted values that resulted from the senseless destruction of World War I to the use of the creative forces of the unconscious to undermine convention.
Matthew Gale, a specialist in twentieth-century art, is a curator at Tate, London.
'Anyone who wants to get their bearings in Duchamp and Dalí's worlds should read Matthew Gale's Dada & Surrealism. Gale provides an extremely clear, up-to-date and thorough account of all the movements' different strands around the world. One of the main pleasures of the book is the quantity and range of colour illustrations. Gale's book should become the standard general survey.' (Independent)
'Art & Ideas has broken new ground in making accessible authoritative views on periods, movements and concepts in art. As a series it represents a real advance in publishing.' (Sir Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate London)
'The format is wonderful and offers what had long been missing in academic studies: usable manuals for specific themes or periods...I am definitely not alone in welcoming Art & Ideas as a precious set of teaching tools.' (Joachim Pissarro, Yale University)