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Dark metropolis : Irving Norman's social surrealism / Edited by Ray Day

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Sacramento, CA : Heyday Books , 2006Description: 223 p. : illus. ; 31 cmISBN:

9781597140416

Uniform titles:

Toller Cranston Collection

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DDC classification:

REF 759.13 NOR

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Summary: Social realism at its most vivid and vibrant. Images from an artist who witnessed a century of human struggle. Amazing glimpses of an age of change Stunning retrospective collection of a surrealist master. Not a well-known figure, Irving Norman created monumental works that depicted the world he saw and experienced throughout the decades from World War I into the 70's. There is a dark vision shaped by the wars and enormous change of his times as he saw it - war, revolution, industrialization, and the pace and crush of modern life. This collection attempts to bring Norman to a new position and appreciation among modern American masters.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	Consulta / Referencia	REF 759.13 NOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		065875

Introduction. Paintings of our time / Scott A. Shields -- Essays. A radical life / Patricia Junker ; Irving Norman and the human condition / Charles C. Eldredge -- Reproductions. I. The capitalist enigma ; II. The social illusion ; III. The cycle of war ; IV. The urban transformation ; V. The human predicament.

Social realism at its most vivid and vibrant. Images from an artist who witnessed a century of human struggle. Amazing glimpses of an age of change Stunning retrospective collection of a surrealist master. Not a well-known figure, Irving Norman created monumental works that depicted the world he saw and experienced throughout the decades from World War I into the 70's. There is a dark vision shaped by the wars and enormous change of his times as he saw it - war, revolution, industrialization, and the pace and crush of modern life. This collection attempts to bring Norman to a new position and appreciation among modern American masters.

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