A Home for Surrealism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781891925498)

Chicago has for decades years 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. A Home for Surrealism focuses on a select group of painters whose work in the 1940s and '50s 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.

Author: Janine Mileaf
ISBN-10: 1891925490
ISBN-13: 9781891925498
Publisher: Arts Club of Chicago
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2018
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.10lbs
Size: 11.20h x 9.30w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 10/15/2018 pg. 16