Surrealist Women
At the center of the Surrealist imagination stood women. Or, more precisely, "woman": an idealized, eroticized figure created in the minds of men.
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“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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‘Long Live Degenerate Art’: In ‘Art et Liberté,’ an Egyptian View of Surrealism Addresses Contemporary Issues
Centre Pompidou, Paris, October 19, 2016–January 16, 2017; Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, through May 28, 2017
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Surreal Cairo
In Egypt during World War II, a large group of artists embraced the international Surrealist movement, creating locally inflected artworks and manifestos fully abreast of Western aesthetics and theory…
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From the Archives: William Copley, The Artist as Collector
Painter William Copley believes that artists’ collections are the most interesting: “Artists collect with a precise inspirational purpose, more fetishistically but with a greater sense of unity than o…
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Trust Lust
Art collector and self-taught painter William N. Copley translated his love of Surrealism into bright, cartoonish canvases devoted to everyday objects and scenes of good-natured raunch…
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In the Studio: Tommy Hartung
When it comes to the Bible, Tommy Hartung has some unique qualifications. Raised on a modest farm in Sheridan, a tiny rural town in upstate New York midway between Buffalo and Erie, Penn., the…
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Saving Frida Kahlo From Her Own Celebrity
Scholars and artists are trying to reclaim Kahlo's art from the cult of personality that has surrounded her since her death. A new exhibition at the MCA in Chicago aims to put the emphasis back on…
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14 New Art-History Books to Change Your Mind
Duchamp's dictionary, Picasso's (other) muse, Lucy Lippard's landscapes, and Hans Ulrich Obrist's map quests are among the subjects of recent volumes that expand the story of art
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Magritte’s Grand Illusions
The curator of "Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938," opening September 28 at MoMA, explores how three photographs of the Belgian Surrealist provide insights into his wry humor and…
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