Surrealism Basic Art

Art is not like football: you score most goals from the offside position, Salvador Dali. With Salvador Dali at its mast, the great ship of Surrealism launched off into the wild and turbulent sea of the Roaring Twenties, its sails puffed full of winds blown by Sigmund Freud and Andre Breton. With dreamlike, fantastic imagery, the Surrealists made great, sensational waves in the art world. The influence of artists such as Dali, Ernst, and Magritte, on 20th century film, theatre, literature, and thought is inestimable. Featured artists include: Hans Arp, Brassai, Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Paul Klee, Rene Magritte, Andre Masson, Matta, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso, Meret Oppenheim, and Yves Tanguy. About the Series: Each book in TASCHENs Basic Genre Series features: - a detailed introduction with approximately 35 photographs, plus a timeline of the most important events (political, cultural, scientific, etc.) that took place during the time period - a selection of the most important works of the epoch; each is presented on a 2-page spread with a full-page image and, on the facing page, a description/interpretation of the work and brief biography of the artist as well as additional information such as a reference work, portrait of the artist, and/or citations About the author: Cathrin Klinsohr-Leroy studied art history, archaeology, and German literature in Regensburg, Bonn, and Paris. Since 1994 she has been curator of the Fritz Winter Foundation at the Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen in Munich. She is specialized in the art of the 20th century, and has published works on Lyonel Feininger, Lovis Corinth, Franz Marc, the Blauer Reiter, and Paul Klee.