num_pages: 192
description: While Surrealism became unfashionable in Europe in the 1930s, it enjoyed increasing popularity across the Atlantic at the same time. Surrealism USA, the catalogue to the exhibition at the National Academy of Design, Surrealism USA, traces the history of this movement in the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s by examining its manifestations throughout the countryfrom Social Surrealism and California Post-Surrealism to Magic Realism and the beginning of Abstract Expressionism. It chronicles the wide influence of Dalí on American art, the Surrealists' response to war and fascism, and the relationship between Surrealism and abstract art. With over 100 paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings, this definitive survey brings together the work of American artists like Joseph Cornell, Peter Blume, Kay Sage, Isamu Noguchi, Arshile Gorky, and Jackson Pollockwith that of Europeans in exile during World War II, including Salvador Dalí, Yves Tanguy, André Masson, and Max Ernst.Essays by Michael Duncan, Robert Hobbs, Robert S. Lubar and Scott Rothkopf.  Introduction by Isabelle Dervaux. Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.75 in./192 pgs / 100 color and 50 b&amp;w.
language: English
title: Surrealism Usa
titlecomplete: Surrealism Usa
genres: Art
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Hatje Cantz Publishers