The lives of the surrealists Desmond Morris
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TextPublisher: London Thames & Hudson 2018Description: 272 Pages 25cmISBN: - 9780500021361
- 759.0663 MOR
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Life histories of the Surrealists, known and unknown, by one of the last surviving members of the movement--artist and best-selling author Desmond Morris
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 visual code, but rather the rules of surrealist philosophy: work from the unconscious, letting your darkest, most irrational thoughts well up and shape your art. An artist himself, and contemporary of the later surrealists, Morris illuminates the considerable variation in each artist's approach to this technique. While some were out-and-out surrealists in all they did, others lived more orthodox lives and only became surrealists at the easel or in the studio.
Focusing on the thirty-five artists most closely associated with the surrealist movement, Morris lends context to their life histories with narratives of their idiosyncrasies and their often complex love lives, alongside photos of the artists and their work.
Eileen Agar -- Jean (Hans) Arp -- Francis Bacon -- Hans Bellmer -- Victor Brauner -- André Breton -- Alexander Calder -- Leonora Carrington -- Giorgio de Chirico -- Salvador Dalí -- Paul Delvaux -- Marcel Duchamp -- Max Ernst -- Leonor Fini -- Wilhelm Freddie -- Alberto Giacometti -- Arshile Gorky -- Wifredo Lam -- Conroy Maddox -- René Magritte -- André Masson -- Roberto Matta -- E.L.T. Mesens -- Joan Miró -- Henry Moore -- Meret Oppenheim -- Wolfgang Paalen -- Roland Penrose -- Pablo Picasso -- Man Ray -- Yves Tanguy -- Dorothea Tanning.
"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? Focusing on the thirty-five artists most closely associated with the surrealist movement, Morris lends context to their life histories with narratives of their idiosyncrasies and their often complex love lives, alongside photos of the artists and their work"--.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Desmond Morris was born January 24, 1928 in Purton, North Wiltshire, United Kingdom. He is a British zoologist, ethologist, author, and surrealist painter.After Morris' military service, he attended the University of Birmingham and graduated in 1951 with a First Class Honours Degree in Zoology. In 1954, he received a D.Phil from Oxford University. After graduation, Morris was a Curator of Mammals at the London Zoo until 1966.
Morris was a presenter of the ITV television program "Zoo Time" in the 1950s, but may be best-known for his 1967 best-selling book, The Naked Ape, which describes the evolution of human behavior from a zoological point-of-view.
Morris has authored nearly fifty scientific publications.