Dada & Surrealism

Description

This stimulating introductory survey traces the origins and development of these two roughly parallel revolutionary twentieth-century art movements, exploring the full range of artistic production, including film, photography, collage, painting, graphics and object making.

Matthew Gale skilfully places the art within a context of ideas ranging from the disillusionment and questioning of accepted values that resulted from the senseless destruction of World War I to the use of the creative forces of the unconscious to undermine convention.

Matthew Gale, a specialist in twentieth-century art, is a curator at Tate, London.

“Anyone who wants to get their bearings in Duchamp and Dalí’s worlds should read Matthew Gale’s Dada & Surrealism. Gale provides an extremely clear, up-to-date and thorough account of all the movements’ different strands around the world. One of the main pleasures of the book is the quantity and range of colour illustrations. Gale’s book should become the standard general survey.”—Independent

On the Art & Ideas series

“Art & Ideas has broken new ground in making accessible authoritative views on periods, movements and concepts in art. As a series it represents a real advance in publishing.”—Sir Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate London

“The format is wonderful and offers what had long been missing in academic studies: usable manuals for specific themes or periods… I am definitely not alone in welcoming Art & Ideas as a precious set of teaching tools.”—Joachim Pissarro, Yale University

“Phaidon’s series may prove to be the pick of the crop. It boasts expert but undogmatic texts and a wealth of illustrations.”—The Sunday Telegraph

Additional information

Dimensions	1 × 6.25 × 8.65 in
Series	Art & Ideas
Imprint	Phaidon Press
Format	General Trade
ISBN-13	09780714832616
ISBN-10	0714832618
Author	Dagmar Welle-Skitt, Etienne Menanteau, Matthew Gale
Audience	General / adult
Subjects	art history, art book, history of art, coffee table books, art coffee table books, art history book, art history books for adults, gifts for artists, art gifts