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A boatload of madmen : surrealism and the American avant-garde, 1920-1950 / Dickran Tashjian

By:

Tashjian, Dickran

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Thames and Hudson , 1995Description: 424 p. : illus. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780500236871

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DDC classification:

709.73 TAS

LOC classification:

F802.S35 D445 2007

Summary: Art history professor Tashjian reassesses the impact of surrealism on an emerging American avant-garde and on American culture in this intensive study. He focuses on three American artists - Jackson Pollock, Joseph Cornell and self-styled "Armenian in exile'' Arshile Gorky - who transformed surrealist esthetics in their separate quests for artistic identity. Tashjian also charts the dilution of surrealism in American advertising, fashion and the mass media.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	709.73 TAS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		047799

Art history professor Tashjian reassesses the impact of surrealism on an emerging American avant-garde and on American culture in this intensive study. He focuses on three American artists - Jackson Pollock, Joseph Cornell and self-styled "Armenian in exile'' Arshile Gorky - who transformed surrealist esthetics in their separate quests for artistic identity. Tashjian also charts the dilution of surrealism in American advertising, fashion and the mass media.

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