Matthew Gale, Dada & Surrealism, Ed. Phaidon, 1997

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itolo completo: «Dada & Surrealism. A stimulating introduction to this 20th-century art movement».

«This stimulating introductory survey traces the origins and development of these two roughly parallel revolutionary twentieth-century art movements, exploring the full range of artistic production, including film, photography, collage, painting, graphics and object making.

Matthew Gale skilfully places the art within a context of ideas ranging from the disillusionment and questioning of accepted values that resulted from the senseless destruction of World War I to the use of the creative forces of the unconscious to undermine convention.

The book explores the work of a wide range of artists, from Marcel Duchamp and Raoul Hausmann to Max Ernst, René Magritte and Salvador Dalí. and uses paintings, collages, sculptures, assemblages, photographs, photomontages, film stills and graphics to illustrate the rich variety of Dada and Surrealist art».

Prima Edizione del 1997, a copertina morbida lucida fotografica con alette, rilegata a filo, stampata su carta semi-lucida di buona qualità, e corredata da decine di fotografie a colori, anche a tutta pagina.

Nuovo [il volume proviene da imballi originali editoriali, e quindi non è mai stato utilizzato; eventuali imperfezioni o microabrasioni, se dovessero essercene, sono da imputare al tempo trascorso dalla pubblicazione e/o all’editore stesso].