The last time the Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was mentioned in these pages was in conjunction with María Félix, the Mexican movie star known to fans as La Doña after her breakout ...
Dada -- Emergence of surrealism -- Surrealism and the arts -- A swing door -- Open sesame -- Oracular replies -- Prospecting the imaginary -- The enchanters' domain ...
Exhibitions around the world are celebrating the art movement’s centennial and asking whether our crazy dreams can still set us free. André Breton in Paris in the 1920s. In 1924 he published his ...
Bird Lives, 12.9.95 (triptych), Conte crayon and newspaper cutout on black paper, 24 x 18 inches. Art: Courtesy Zürcher Gallery, NY/Paris. When Ted Joans was 10, his aunt fished Parisian Surrealist ...
Yvan Goll was born in 1891. In his twenties, he moved to Paris, where he wrote antiwar poetry and absurdist drama, met Picasso and Chagall, and gorged himself on the era’s avant-garde buffet.