- Features work by: Eileen Agar, Edward Burra, Cecil Collins, Paul
Nash, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, Francis Bacon, Leonora Carrington,
Lucian Freud and Paule Vézelay - Delving back to the artists and writers
who were the 'Ancestors of Surrealism', the influence of Lewis Carroll,
William Blake, Henry Fuseli and William Shakespeare is explored - Essays
by David Boyd Haycock, Kirstie Meehan and Sacha Llewellyn - Produced in
conjunction with Dulwich Picture Gallery's British Surrealism exhibition
in 2020 Surrealism was one of the most influential avant-garde movements
of the 20th century. 'Discovered' in 1920 by the French poet André
Breton, it emerged from the horrifying irrationality of the First World
War, the revolutionary nonsense of Dadaist art and the penetrating
theories of Freudian psychoanalysis. It explored the illogical, the
dreamlike, the marvelous; it intended to liberate the imagination, free
the mind and change the world. With its unique history of outlandish
creativity and its soft spot for the absurd, Britain was a perfect
breeding ground for the surreal. Produced in conjunction with Dulwich
Picture Gallery's British Surrealism exhibition in 2020, this
publication features works by Eileen Agar, Edward Burra, Cecil Collins,
Paul Nash, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, Francis Bacon, Leonora
Carrington, Lucian Freud and Paule Vézelay. Delving back to the artists
and writers who were the 'Ancestors of Surrealism', the influence of
Lewis Carroll, William Blake, Henry Fuseli and William Shakespeare is
explored. This beautifully produced publication will surprise the reader
with it's unique, imaginative take on what an exhibition catalog can be,
including interactive pages interspersed amongst essays by David Boyd
Haycock, Kirstie Meehan and Sacha Llewellyn.
