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

Title
Monsters & myths : surrealism and war in the 1930s and 1940s / edited by Oliver Shell and Oliver Tostmann ; essays by Robin Adèle Greeley [and three others].
Publication
New York, NY : Rizzoli Electa, in association with The Baltimore Museum of Art and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2018.

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Additional Authors
  • Greeley, Robin Adèle, 1958-
  • Baltimore Museum of Art, host institution.
  • Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, host institution.
Description
256 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm
Alternative Title
Monsters and myths : surrealism and war in the 1930s and 1940s
Subject
  • World War (1939-1945)
  • 1939-1945
  • Surrealism > Exhibitions
  • War in art > Exhibitions
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Art and the war
  • Surrealism
  • War in art
Genre/Form
  • Art.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • "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."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-252) and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 0847863131
  • 9780847863136
OCLC
  • on1029229343
  • SCSB-9172236
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library