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Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Description
"Ducks growing out of bananas? A mouse catching a cat? What's wrong with this book? Yes, there's something strange, something funny, and even downright preposterous on every page of this book. But it's not a mistake--it's nonsense! And it's also surrealism"--
Follow along as the Nonsense Show goes on, in a text that introduces surrealism to young readers.
Series
Criterion collection volume 290
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 p.)
Description
A perverse, playfully absurd comedy that compiles many of the illogical themes that preoccupied Bunuel through his career - from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements.
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Formats
Description
"The authors share detailed techniques for using surface embellishments, creating faces, heads, and limbs, using molds and molding products, and building and transforming disparate objects into whimsical, inspiring dolls. Starting with a variety of substrates--a wood block, a canvas, a tin can, a book, and a box construction--readers are guided step by step through five types of doll constructions."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume ; 24 cm
Description
Surrealism did not begin as an art movement but as a philosophical strategy, a way of life, and a rebellion against the establishment that gave rise to the First World War. In Lives of the Surrealists, Desmond Morris concentrates on the artists as people--as remarkable individuals. What were their personalities, their predilections, their character strengths and flaws? Unlike the Impressionists or the Cubists, the surrealists did not obey a fixed...
11) Dalí
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Description
Painter, designer, creator of bizarre objects, author and film maker, Dalí became the most famous of the Surrealists. Buñuel, Lorca, Picasso and Breton all had a great influence on his career. Dalí's film, An Andalusian Dog, produced with Buñuel, marked his official entry into the tightly-knit group of Parisian Surrealists, where he met Gala, the woman who became his lifelong companion and his source of inspiration. But his relationship soon deteriorated...
Series
Criterion collection volume 102
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Description
Chronicles the life and works of the surrealist artist, who created some of the most enigmatic and startling works of the twentieth century.
15) Rene Magritte
Series
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A definitive biography of artist Rene Magritte accompanied by images of his greatest works.
Author
Series
Publisher
Watson-Guptill Publications
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
An introduction to Surrealism which includes guidance for related activities as well as brief biographies of six artists: Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, Joan Mir, Merit Oppenheim, and Frida Kahlo.
Series
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (153 min.) : sd. col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Utilizing a delirious combination of puppets, humans, stop-motion animation and live action, Svankmajer's films conjure up a dreamlike universe that is at once dark, macabre, witty and perversely visceral. This is a collection of short works"--Container.
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