Monsters & myths : surrealism and war in the 1930s and 1940s / edited by Oliver Shell and Oliver Tostmann ; essays by Robin Adèle Greeley, Samantha Kavky, Oliver Shell, and Oliver Tostmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greeley, Robin Adèle, 1958- author.

Kavky, Samantha, author.

Shell, Oliver, author, editor.

Tostmann, Oliver, author, editor.

Contributor:

Baltimore Museum of Art, host institution.

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surrealism--Exhibitions.

Surrealism.

War in art--Exhibitions.

War in art.

World War, 1939-1945--Art and the war.

World War, 1939-1945.

Genre:

Art and the war.

Art.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

256 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Other Title:

Monsters and myths : surrealism and war in the 1930s and 1940s

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Rizzoli Electa, in association with The Baltimore Museum of Art and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2018.

Contents:

The Surrealists and their monsters in a "time of distress" / Oliver Tostmann

André Masson's monsters : Making art in a minotaurian era / Oliver Shell

Max Ernst and the Second World War: witches, chimeras, and totems / Samantha Kavky

The Minotaur in its labyrinth: art and politics in the Surrealists' world / Robin Adèle Greeley

Catalogue: Premonition of war; The Spanish Civil War, World War II; Surrealism in the Americas.

Notes:

"This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s, organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, October 20, 2018--January 13, 2019; The Baltimore Museum of Art, February 24--May 26, 2019; and the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN, June 23--September 22, 2019."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-252) and index.

ISBN:

0847863131

9780847863136

OCLC:

1029229343