Why Do We Cling to Art in Apocalyptic Times?
The hope that modern art's complex ideological matrix of individualism, novelty, critique, and consumption might be in any way adequate to the unimaginable global cataclysm that will define the…
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Max Ernst
“Moon Dancers: Yup’ik Masks and the Surrealists”
For André Breton, collecting les arts premiers (tribal art) was an inherently "surrealist activity" capable of displacing the rationalized relations of the modern world.
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From the Archives: Barnett Newman Criticizes a MoMA Surrealism Show—and John Ashbery—in 1968
"My paintings are, in fact, a confrontation with Surrealism."
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‘Endgame: Duchamp, Chess, and the Avant-Garde’ at Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
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Who Threw the First Punch?: Shana Lutker Stages a Surrealist Fight in Los Angeles
Late on the evening of July 2, 1925, police cordoned off the Closerie des Lilas, a Paris café, after an intellectual altercation. At a dinner in honor of Symbolist poet Saint-Pol-Roux, young…
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Max Ernst
A Dada pioneer and one of the most influential Surrealist painters, Max Ernst was not well recognized as a sculptor until late in his career, in the 1960s. Ernst (1891-1976) contributed to 20th-centur…
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Morning Links: Chris Burden Edition
The late Chris Burden’s final project, a 40-foot-long airship, will go on view at Los Angeles County Museum of Art this week. [The Art Newspaper] A professor in the University of California, San…
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