Anthology of surrealist texts, selected and edited by Marcel Jean. General editor for The Documents of 20th-Century Art series: Robert Rauschenberg. Includes texts by Giorgio de Chirico, Arthur Rimbaud, Guillaume Apollinaire, Alfred Jarry, Jacques Vaché, Pierre Reverdy, Lautréamont, Marcel Duchamp, André Breton, Francis Picabia, Max Ernst, and many others. ... [details]
Monograph on the work of Marcel Duchamp by Octavio Paz. Translated into English by Rachel Phillips and Donald Gardner. Includes a list of illustrations and a chronology. [details]
Monograph on Marcel Duchamp focusing on the context, significance, and meaning of his piece "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even" written by John Golding. Includes a historical table, notes, a bibliographical note, list of illustrations, and index. ... [details]
"In the original French edition of this book, Pierre Cabanne wrote, shortly before Duchamp's death: 'These interviews with Marcel Duchamp took place in his studio at Neuilly [near Paris], where he and his wife live during the six months they spend in France each year. ... [details]
"At the age of ninety, Pablo Picasso is undoubtedly the greatest living artist of the twentieth century. Although he has had tremendous influence as a painter and sculpture, he has rarely committed himself in writing on the subject of art, and in fact the vast Picasso literature contains only three documents that he has verified himself. ... [details]
Memoir that chronicles Brassaï's relationships with artists living in Paris in the early to mid 20th century. Features his photographs and his reminiscences of artists whom he befriended, such as Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Salvador Dali, Charles Despiau, Raoul Dufy, Alberto Giacometti, Oksar Kokoschka, Henri Laurens, Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipchitz, Aristide Maillol, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Hans Reichel, Germaine Richier, Georges Rouault, Jacques Villon, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Ambroise Vollard. ... [details]
A mammoth book documenting the thrills and chills of when artists and scientists [or corporations] joined together by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art attempted to produce collaborative works. Amazingly self critical of the failures [and limited success] of the program. ... [details]
"The surrealist movement, launched by André Breton's 1924 manifesto declaring his quest for the fusion of dream and reality, has flourished as one of the most important, controversial, and pervasive modern movements, one that has affected the course of literature, the visual arts, even politics. ... [details]
Monograph on the artist Paul Klee. Text by Carola Giedion-Welcker, translated by Alexander Gode. Includes list of illustrations, biography, and selected bibliography. Printed in color and black-and-white. [details]
Anthology of writing on art by Guillaume Apollinaire. Edited by LeRoy C. Breunig, Arthur A. Cohen Robert Motherwell, and Bernard Karpel. Writing organized chronologically. Includes bibliography and an index. ... [details]
