Title: Dada & surrealism /
Authors: Gale, Matthew.
Date: 1997
Publisher: Phaidon Press,
Physical description: 447 pages : illustrations (some color), map.
Language: English
LC classification: N
Abstract: The author "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."--Back cover.
Contents: Introduction: On the Threshold of Liberty -- 1. Merdre: Dada's Roots in the Avant-Garde -- 2. Dada's Balcony: Dada in Zurich 1915-1920 -- 3. From the Other Side: Dada in Other Neutral Cities 1915-1921 -- 4. The Spirit of the Age: Dada in Central Europe 1917-1922 -- 5. Dada Stirs Up Everything: Dada in Paris 1919-1924 -- 6. A Wave of Dreams: Beginnings of Surrealism 1924-1929 -- 7. Accommodations of Desires: Rifts within Surrealism 1929-1933 -- 8. The Call of the Night: The Surrealist International 1933-1939 -- 9. Fabulous Race-Track of Death: Exile 1939-1946 -- 10. The Breach: Surrealism in the Postwar Years 1946-1966.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Arts, Modern--20th century.; Dadaism.; Surrealism.