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Surrealism in Latin America
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This book is ideal for readers interested in arts and culture, particularly those passionate about surrealism, Latin American art, and the cross-cultural influences within modernist movements. It serves students, scholars, and general readers seeking an insightful and scholarly overview of surrealism's international dimension.
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See more*This is an important new survey on the under-appreciated development of surrealism in Latin America. Including texts by a wealth of authorities on the subject, it appeals to both academics and general-interest readers.
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It is widely recognised that surrealism has been fundamental to the development of modern art and literature. What is often under-appreciated, however, is its international perspective. This thought-provoking and comprehensive survey reveals what happened to surrealism as it travelled to and fro between Europe and Latin America.
For almost three decades, journeys, encounters, exchanges, collaborations, and exhibitions forged multiple links. Surrealism flourished and transformed itself, aided by poets and artists including Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Frida Kahlo, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, César Moro, and Octavio Paz. Almost a century after the first manifestos appeared, this timely volume considers the lasting legacy the movement left.
Surrealism in Latin America is the first book to cover both literary and visual surrealism, and explores in fascinating detail how artists and writers contested, embraced, and adapted a host of avant-garde ideas and practices.
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ISBN: 9781849761253
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 18 April 2013
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Tate Publishing
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 178.0mm
Height: 257.0mm
Weight: 706g
Pages: 232
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Dawn Ades is Professor Emerita of the History and Theory of Art at the University of Essex. She has written extensively on Dada, Surrealism, photography and women artists, among other things. Publications include Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, Writings on Art and Anti-Art, Marcel Duchamp (with Neil Cox and David Hopkins) and Photomontage. Among the exhibitions she has organised or co-organised are ‘Art in Latin America’ (1989); ‘Fetishism: Visualising Power and Desire’ (1995); ‘Salvador Dalí: The Centenary Retrospective’ (2004); ‘Undercover Surrealism’ (2006); and ‘Dalí/Duchamp’ (2017–18).
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