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Author Henning, Edward B.

Title The spirit of surrealism / Edward B. Henning
Published Cleveland : Cleveland Museum of Art, [1979]
©1979

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Description ix, 186 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Contents The Dada prelude. The origin and nature of Dada ; The spirit of Dada in New York : Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Man Ray ; Dada in Europe : Jean (Hans) Arp, Kurt Schwitters, Max Ernst ; The end of Dada -- The Surrealist spirit emerges. The crucial role of André Breton ; The influence of some earlier writers : Le Comte de Lautréamont, Arthur Rimbaud, Alfred Jarry, the Symbolists ; The influence of some earlier philosophers : Immanuel Kant, Georg Hegel, Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche ; Some artist ancestors : Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Henri Rousseau, Giorgio de Chirico -- Surrealism. Surrealism and communism ; Surrealism and the visual arts : Max Ernst, Joan Miró, André Masson, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Salvador Dali, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti ; Reinforcements in the 1930s : Paul Delvaux, Matta (Roberto Sebastian Antonio Echaurren) -- Surrealism and the New York school of artists. Arshile Gorky ; Robert Motherwell ; Jackson Pollock ; William Baziotes ; Joseph Cornell
Notes Catalog of an exhibition held at the Cleveland Museum of Art Oct. 3-Nov. 25, 1979
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 177-184
Notes Also issued online
Subject Arts, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Surrealism -- Exhibitions.
Surrealism.
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Author Henning, Edward B.
Cleveland Museum of Art.
LC no. 79063387
ISBN 0910386528