Book description
100 years after the publication of André Breton’s Manifeste du Surréalisme, The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium celebrate a century of international surrealism with the extraordinary exhibition IMAGINE! From Giorgio de Chirico to Jackson Pollock, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Dorothea Tanning, Man Ray and Leonor Fini:…
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1 author picked Imagine! as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This exhibition catalogue was produced to accompany an exhibition in Brussels this year to celebrate the anniversary of the First Surrealist Manifesto (1924). What I enjoyed was the way it revealed the similarities and disjunctions between the Symbolist movement of the 19th century with the Surrealist movement of the early 20th century. The catalogue explores different thematic aspects of these movements to produce interesting clusters of ideas and imagery for the first time. Lavishly produced, this catalogue is both a visual treat and a thought-provoking read.
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