Author: Dervaux, Isabelle et al.
Title: Surrealism Usa
Description: Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany/New York, Hatje Cantz/ National Academy Museum, 2005. Hardbound. Pictorial illustrated boards. 192 pp. 68 bw and 196 color plates. Follows the increasing popularity of Surrealism in the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s and its influence on a new generation of abstractionists. A stunning presentation and thoughtfully explained with scholarly contributions by Isabelle Dervaux, Michael Duncan, Robert Hobbs, Gerrit L. Lansing, Robert S. Lubar, Marshall N. Price, and Scott Rothkopf. Examines surrealism's manifestations throughout the country, Social Surrealism and California Post-Surrealism to Magic Realism and the beginning of Abstract Expressionism. It chronicles the wide influence of Dali on American art, the Surrealists' responses to war and fascism, and the relationship between Surrealism & abstract art. Includes a useful chronology. VG .

Keywords: American Art ; American Surrealism ; ; General Art - American


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