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In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States

Product Description: Filled with a wide array of illustrations, this book offers a fresh perspective on surrealism as it spotlights the important role that North American women artists played in the movement. The surrealist movement in art is most often identified with male artists, many of whom objectified women in their paintings, casting them as sexual or symbolic ideals...read more

By Dawn Ades (contributor), Tere Arcq (editor), Maria Elena Buszek (contributor), Ilene Susan Fort (editor) and Terri Geis (editor)

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9783791351414 | Prestel Pub, January 11, 2012, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Filled with a wide array of illustrations, this book offers a fresh perspective on surrealism as it spotlights the important role that North American women artists played in the movement.

Andr Masson, Monograph and Catalogue Raisonn, 1918 - 1941

By Dawn Ades, Catherine Loewer, Guite Masson and Martin Masson

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9781555953300 | 3 edition (Hudson Hills Pr, January 16, 2012), cover price $360.00

Francis Bacon

Product Description: The painting of Francis Bacon (1909-1992) defines the shattered self-image of Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, and his wracked human figures are now basic to the twentieth century's visual lexicon. Clearing away all moral scaffolding, Bacon made room for what he called "the brutality of fact" to implode onto his canvases, paring back his subjects to animal function and bloodlust...read more

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9788434311909 | Poligrafa Ediciones Sa, November 2, 2008, cover price $55.00 | also contains Francis Bacon, Francis Bacon, Francis Bacon, Francis Bacon, Francis Bacon | About this edition: The painting of Francis Bacon (1909-1992) defines the shattered self-image of Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, and his wracked human figures are now basic to the twentieth century's visual lexicon.

9780810907140 | Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1, 1985, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Traces the life and career of the controversial Irish painter, shows a variety of his portraits and figure studies, and assesses his place in modern art

Wifredo Lam in North America

Product Description: In the winter of 2007, Milwaukee's Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, organized and hosted the first American retrospective exhibition of Cuba's favorite Surrealist, Wifredo Lam (1902-1992). Lam's paintings craft Surrealist conjunctions from Cuban religious iconography--especially from tribal masks--and retrieve a suppressed Afro-Cuban culture that ultimately sets them apart from any movement...read more

By Dawn Ades, Curtis L. Carter, Valerie J. Fletcher, Lou Laurin-Lam, Edward Lucie-Smith and Lowery Stokes Sims

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9780945366225 | Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty, March 1, 2008, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In the winter of 2007, Milwaukee's Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, organized and hosted the first American retrospective exhibition of Cuba's favorite Surrealist, Wifredo Lam (1902-1992).

Melanie Smith: Spiral City & Other Vicarious Pleasures

Product Description: The English-born artist Melanie Smith has been involved in the Mexican art scene since the late 1980s, and Spiral City & Other Vicarious Pleasures is her first significant monograph--published in conjunction with the artist's 2006 retrospective exhibition at Mexico City's University Museum of Sciences and Arts, commonly known as MUCA...read more

By Eduardo Abaroa, Dawn Ades, David Batchelor and Cuauhtemoc Medina

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9789689056072 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, July 1, 2007, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The English-born artist Melanie Smith has been involved in the Mexican art scene since the late 1980s, and Spiral City & Other Vicarious Pleasures is her first significant monograph--published in conjunction with the artist's 2006 retrospective exhibition at Mexico City's University Museum of Sciences and Arts, commonly known as MUCA.

The Dada Reader: A Critical Anthology

Product Description: The revolutionary Dada movement, though short-lived, produced a vast amount of creative work in both art and literature during the years that followed World War I. Rejecting all social and artistic conventions, Dadaists went to the extremes of provocative behavior, creating “anti-art” pieces that ridiculed and questioned the very nature of creative endeavor...read more

By Dawn Ades (editor)

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9780226006970 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 15, 2006, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: The revolutionary Dada movement, though short-lived, produced a vast amount of creative work in both art and literature during the years that followed World War I.

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9780226006987 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 15, 2006, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The revolutionary Dada movement, though short-lived, produced a vast amount of creative work in both art and literature during the years that followed World War I.

Undercover Surrealism: George Bataille And Documents

Product Description: In the Paris art world of the 1920s, Georges Bataille and his journal DOCUMENTS represented a dissident branch of surrealism. Bataille--poet, philosopher, writer, and self-styled "enemy within" surrealism--used DOCUMENTS to put art into violent confrontation with popular culture, ethnography, film, and archaeology...read more

By Dawn Ades and Simon Baker

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9780262012300 | Mit Pr, August 11, 2006, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: In the Paris art world of the 1920s, Georges Bataille and his journal DOCUMENTS represented a dissident branch of surrealism.

Surrealism: Desire Unbound

Amazon.com Review: Surrealism: Desire Unbound is not only a wonderfully produced catalog to accompany the Tate Modern's excellent surrealism exhibition but also a compelling addition to surrealist studies in its own right. As lavishly illustrated as you could hope for (no fewer than 300 color illustrations), the book really owes its strength to the quality of the essays, which come from some of the best art historians around...read more

By Dawn Ades (editor), Vincent Gille (editor) and Jennifer Mundy (editor)

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9780691123363 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 28, 2005, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Amazon.

Dali

Product Description: Superb reproductions of paintings by one of the 20th century's most famous artists: The Visage of War, The Enigma of Desire, the well-known Persistence of Memory, 13 others.

By Dawn Ades

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9780847826735 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, December 17, 2004, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Hundreds of stunning reproductions of the artist's works, accompanied by an incisive essay reflecting current scholarship on the subject, celebrate the ingenious art of Salvador Dal� in a major retrospective of his work that marks the centenary of his birth.

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9780876331866 | Philadelphia Museum of Art, December 30, 2004, cover price $58.00 | About this edition: Superb reproductions of paintings by one of the 20th century's most famous artists: The Visage of War, The Enigma of Desire, the well-known Persistence of Memory, 13 others.

9780500202807 | Rev upd su edition (Thames & Hudson, May 1, 1995), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This study of Salvador Dali's work asks what accounts for his popularity as an artist.

The Endless Enigma: Dali and the Magicians of Multiple Meaning

Product Description: Fascinated by optical phenomena and curious to explore the limits of picture making, painters share a long history of creating visual puzzles, composite pictures with shifting perspectives. Ambiguous images whose various levels of meaning depend entirely on the observer's point of view have drawn more than a few painters' brushes over time...read more

By Dawn Ades and Jean-Hubert Martin

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9783775712835 | Cantz, July 1, 2003, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Fascinated by optical phenomena and curious to explore the limits of picture making, painters share a long history of creating visual puzzles, composite pictures with shifting perspectives.

Jose Clemente Orozco in the United States, 1927-1934

The lifework of one of the finest Mexican muralists is fully illuminated here, capturing a full range of the politically charged images he created while living in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s.

By Dawn Ades (editor), Alicia Azuela, Jacquelynn Baas, Rita Eder, Renato Gonzalez Mello, Diane Miliotes, James Oles, Francisco Reyes Palma, Karen Cordero Reiman and Victor Alejandro Sorell

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9780393041767 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 2002, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: The lifework of one of the finest Mexican muralists is fully illuminated here, capturing a full range of the politically charged images he created while living in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s.

Surrealism: Desire Unbound

A celebration of surrealism focuses on the works of Duchamp, Magrritte, Ernst, Dali, de Chirico, Giacometti, Bellmer, Tanning, Claude Cahum, and many others. (view table of contents)

By Dawn Ades (editor), Vincent Gille (editor), Metropolitan Museum of Art (other contributor), Jennifer Mundy (editor) and Tate Modern (other contributor)

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9780691090641 | Princeton Univ Pr, October 29, 2001, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: A celebration of surrealism focuses on the works of Duchamp, Magrritte, Ernst, Dali, de Chirico, Giacometti, Bellmer, Tanning, Claude Cahum, and many others.

Peter Blake About Collage: About Collage

Product Description: This catalogue opens with an interview in which Peter Blake discusses his use of collage, his influences, and his many collaborations with musicians, writers and performers. It goes on to showcase a collection of work that tests the boundaries of collage and collecting. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Dawn Ades, Peter Blake, Natalie Rudd and Tate Gallery Liverpool (corporate author)

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9781854373236 | Tate Gallery Pubn, April 1, 2000, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: This catalogue opens with an interview in which Peter Blake discusses his use of collage, his influences, and his many collaborations with musicians, writers and performers.

Dali's Optical Illusions

Explores Dali's experiments with perspectives, offering more than one hundred color and sixty-one black and white illustrations of the artist's optical illusions. (view table of contents)

By Dawn Ades (editor), Salvador Dali, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (corporate author), Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (corporate author) and Wadsworth Atheneum (corporate author)

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9780300081770 | Yale Univ Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Explores Dali's experiments with perspectives, offering more than one hundred color and sixty-one black and white illustrations of the artist's optical illusions.

Marcel Duchamp

Product Description: Genius, anti-artist, charlatan, guru, imposter? Since 1914 Marcel Duchamp has been called all these. Arousing passion and controversy, he has exerted a great influence on art, whose very nature he challenged and redefined as concept rather than product by questioning its traditionally privileged optical nature...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Dawn Ades, Neil Cox, Marcel Duchamp and David Hopkins

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9780500203224 | Thames & Hudson, June 1, 1999, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Genius, anti-artist, charlatan, guru, imposter?

Salvador Dali: A Mythology

Product Description: Published to accompany a major exhibition of his work, in Liverpool and St Petersburg, this study presents Salvador Dali's engagement with myth, legend and belief. Focusing mainly on the 1930s and early 1940s, during his involvement with the surrealist movement, it explores his illustration and adaptation of clasical, popular and Catholic narratives, his fascination with stories in collective ownership and his determined appropriation of them for the self-consciously orchestrated story of his own life...read more

By Dawn Ades (editor) and Fiona Bardley (editor)

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9781854372598 | Tate Gallery Pubn, April 1, 1999, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Published to accompany a major exhibition of his work, in Liverpool and St Petersburg, this study presents Salvador Dali's engagement with myth, legend and belief.

Art Unsolved: The Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection

Product Description: The Outsider Collection was established in L ondon in 1981 by Monika Kinley and Victor Musgrave. This int ernational collection now consists of over three hundred wor ks. Art Unsolved is the first book to be published on this e xtraordinary body of work ' (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Dawn Ades, Dublin Irish Museum of Modern Art (corporate author), Monika Kinley (editor), Catherine Marshall (editor) and Jon Thompson

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9780853317722 | Lund Humphries Pub Ltd, July 1, 1998, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The Outsider Collection was established in L ondon in 1981 by Monika Kinley and Victor Musgrave.

Surreal Life: Edward James

Product Description: An assessment of James's interaction with the visual arts, literature, dance and interior decoration, both as an artist and a patron.

By Dawn Ades and Nicola Coleby (editor)

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9780856674938 | Philip Wilson Pub Ltd, January 1, 1998, cover price $58.00 | About this edition: An assessment of James's interaction with the visual arts, literature, dance and interior decoration, both as an artist and a patron.

Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago

Product Description: One of the finest and most famous collections of Surrealist art ever assembled is that of Chicago philanthropists Lindy and Edwin A. Bergman. Now housed at the Art Institute of Chicago, the collection encompasses 118 works in a wide range of media, from drawings to paintings and sculpture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Dawn Ades, Margherita Andreotti, Art Institute of Chicago (corporate author) and Adam Jolles

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9780500279953 | Art Inst of Chicago Museum Shop, June 1, 1997, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Chicago philanthropists Lindy and Edwin Bergman own one of the most famous collections of Surrealist art.

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9780500237113 | Thames & Hudson, September 1, 1997, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: One of the finest and most famous collections of Surrealist art ever assembled is that of Chicago philanthropists Lindy and Edwin A.

Andre Masson

Product Description: Andre Masson (1896-1987) was one of the major early French Surrealist painters. A close friend of Andre Breton, Joan Miro and Max Ernst, he joined the Surrealist movement in the early 1920s, then disassociated with it in the early 1930s, focusing instead on the human condition - the fundamental impulses of love and hatred - and reacting to the Spanish Civil War...read more

By Dawn Ades

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9780847817993 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, April 1, 1994, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Andre Masson (1896-1987) was one of the major early French Surrealist painters.

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9781854903143 | Vch Pub, November 1, 1996, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Andre Masson (1896-1987) was one of the major early French Surrealist painters.

Siron Franco - Figures and Likenesses: Paintings 1968-1995

By Dawn Ades

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9788570830463 | Art Books Intl Ltd, March 1, 1996, cover price $43.00

Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820-1980

Discusses Latin American art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, detailing the indigenous, colonial, post-colonial, and political influences

By Dawn Ades

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9780300045567 | Yale Univ Pr, August 1, 1989, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Discusses Latin American art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, detailing the indigenous, colonial, post-colonial, and political influences

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9780300045611 | Reissue edition (Yale Univ Pr, December 1, 1993), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Discusses Latin American art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, detailing the indigenous, colonial, post-colonial, and political influences

The 20Th-Century Poster: Design of the Avant-Garde

By Dawn Ades, Robert K. Brown, Mildred S. Friedman and Walker Art Center (corporate author)

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9781558591301 | 2 sub edition (Abbeville Pr, October 1, 1990), cover price $29.95

British Art in the 20th Century: The Modern Movement

By Dawn Ades (editor), Susan Compton (editor) and Royal Academy of Arts (other contributor)

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9783791307985 | Prestel Pub, January 1, 1987, cover price $80.00

Photomontage

One hundred seventy-one monochromes are reproduced in an overview of the nature and evolution of photomontage

By Dawn Ades

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9780500202081 | Rev enl su edition (Thames & Hudson, October 1, 1986), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: One hundred seventy-one monochromes are reproduced in an overview of the nature and evolution of photomontage

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