A home for surrealism
Subtitle: fantastic painting in midcentury Chicago
By: edited by Janine Mileaf and Susan F. Rossen ; contributions by Robert Cozzolino, Adam Jolles, Janine Mileaf, Joanna Pawlik, and Marin Sarvé-Tarr
Publisher: Arts Club of Chicago; Arts Club of Chicago, The
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9781891925498
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Surrealism; Painters; Art; American Painting
Description: Chicago has for decades been one of the most prominent cities where European surrealism is avidly collected and displayed. However, there has yet to be a scholarly exhibition and catalogue that addresses the local manifestations of this international mode of art. This book focuses on a select group of painters whose work in the 1940s and 50's both transformed the domestic and domesticated the surrealist, particularly in Chicago. Working independently, but within a chain of social and artistic relationships, this group explored the interior as a site of projected imagination and fantasy, and the self as the generator of such altered perception. Including contributions by Robert Cozzolino, Adam Jolles, and Joanna Pawlik, the book provides a richly illustrated account of an international movement's unlikely - but somehow ever so fitting - home in America.  Exhibition: The Arts Club of Chicago, USA (7.6. - 22.8.2018).
Notes: Includes works by, biographies and bibliographies on Gertrude Abercrombie, Ivan Albright, Eldzier Cortor, Julio de Diego, Harold Noecker, Dorothea Tanning, Julia Thecla, and John Henry Wilde.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-131) and index.