Surreal things
Subtitle: Surrealism and design
By: edited by Ghislaine Wood.
Contributors: Wood, Ghislaine.
Publisher: V&A Publications
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781851775002; 9781851775019
Subjects: Surrealism -- Exhibitions; Design -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: Surrealism, one of the influential movements of the 20th century, had a profound impact on all forms of culture. Containing over 350 illustrations, this book examines its impact in the wider fields of design and the decorative arts and its sometimes uneasy relationship with the commercial world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Surreal things: making 'the fantastic real' / Ghislaine Wood; title: I: Surrealism and the material world; title: The uncommon object: surrealist concepts and categories for the material world / Ulrich Lehmann; title: The Illusory interior / Ghislaine Wood; title: Nature made strange / Jennifer Mundy; title: The shapes of life: biomorphism and American design / Ghislaine Wood; title: Black materialism: surrealism faces the commercial world / Krzysztof Fijalkowski; title: Displaying the body: surrealism's geography of pleasure / Alyce Mahon; title: Fashion and surrealism / Dilys Blum; title: The surrealist (sub-)version of advertising / Georges Roque; title: Shocking: surrealism and fashion now / Thimo Te Duits; title: II: Artist-designers; title: Jean-Michel Frank: the surrealist interior / Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier; title: Edward James, architect of surrealism / Sharon-Michi Kusunoki; title: Dali's jewellery / Ghislaine Wood; title: Joan Miro and ceramics / Paul Greenhalgh; title: Post-war American textiles / Dilys Blum; title: III: Surreal things; title: 45 object entries / Alexander Klar, Thimo Te Duits and Ghislaine Wood.