About this product

Product Identifiers

PublisherAldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Incorporated, T.H.E.

ISBN-101888332085

ISBN-139781888332087

eBay Product ID (ePID)483852

Product Key Features

Book TitlePop Surrealism

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicHistory / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), History / Contemporary (1945-), Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General

Publication Year1999

IllustratorYes

GenreArt

AuthorDominique Nahas, Ingrid Schaffner, Richard Klein

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight4.3 Oz

Item Length4 in

Item Width4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Number of Volumes1 vol.

SynopsisPop Surrealism highlights the recent explosion of pop-influenced surrealist art from an emerging generation of artists and a few key senior figures who have influenced their work. Designed in a special pocket format, this intriguing book offers a primer on the confluence of pop and surrealist iconography, and features work by over seventy artists, including Gregory Crewdson, Mariko Mori, Ashley Bickerton, Art Spiegelman, Tony Oursler, and Cindy Sherman. The book's informative essays consider such varied topics as the relation between comics and surrealism, Hollywood and surrealism, and the image of the grotesque body. Reviewing the exhibition for ArtForum , Steven Henry Madoff wrote: "The mutant sensibility at work in this droll, smartly curated exhibition proposes the marriage of Surrealism's dream-laden fetish for the body eroticized and grotesque and Pop art's celebration of the shallower, corrosively bright world given over the packaged good.", "Pop Surrealism" highlights the recent explosion of pop-influenced surrealist art from an emerging generation of artists and a few key senior figures who have influenced their work. Designed in a special pocket format, this intriguing book offers a primer on the confluence of pop and surrealist iconography, and features work by over seventy artists, including Gregory Crewdson, Mariko Mori, Ashley Bickerton, Art Spiegelman, Tony Oursler, and Cindy Sherman. The book's informative essays consider such varied topics as the relation between comics and surrealism, Hollywood and surrealism, and the image of the grotesque body. Reviewing the exhibition for "ArtForum," Steven Henry Madoff wrote: "The mutant sensibility at work in this droll, smartly curated exhibition proposes the marriage of Surrealism's dream-laden fetish for the body eroticized and grotesque and Pop art's celebration of the shallower, corrosively bright world given over the packaged good."