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Surrealism may long since have lost its subversiveness – but as the show proves, it can still be a lot of fun. The Design Museum, London W8 (020-3862 5900, designmuseum.org). Until 19 February ...
Object, also sometimes called “Breakfast in Fur,” instantly became one of the quintessential pieces of surrealist art when Oppenheim created it by covering a teacup, saucer and spoon with ...
Another object with an impeccable Surrealist pedigree is over at Jacques Lacoste, which is showing French design from the 1930s.Here is a soft, peach-hued sofa conceived by the wunderkind Salvador ...
TATE MODERN, London. "Surrealism: Desire Unbound," 20 September 2001-1 January 2002. TOUR: METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, New York, 6 February-12 May 2002. CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, Paris. "Surrealism and ...
On view until February 19, 2023, “ Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today“ brings together 350 examples of surrealist products, functional sculptures, garments, magazine photo ...
Letters of desire / Jennifer Mundy -- Omnipotence of desire : surrealism, psychoanalysis and hysteria / David Lomas -- Prière de frôler : the touch in surrealism / Julia Kelly -- Anamorphic love : ...
On the occasion of the landmark “Surrealist Exhibition of Objects,” held in Paris in May 1936, André Breton, the godfather of the movement, wrote an essay in which he called for the “total ...
This beguiling retrospective at the Menil Collection omits the Surrealist’s still delightful ‘Object (Fur-Covered Cup, Saucer, and Spoon)’—to edifying effect ...
Oftentimes in surrealist works, we recognize a world familiar to our own — objects, people, places and structures representing reality — yet these elements are separated from their contexts ...