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050 0 0 _aF802.S35
_bD445 2007
082 1 _a709.73 TAS
_2
100 1 _aTashjian, Dickran
245 1 4 _aA boatload of madmen
_b: surrealism and the American avant-garde, 1920-1950
_c/ Dickran Tashjian
260 _aNew York
_b: Thames and Hudson
_c, 1995
300 _a424 p.
_b: illus.
_c; 24 cm
520 _aArt 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.
546 _aEnglish
650 4 _aArts, American
_x-20th century
650 4 _aSurrealism
651 4 _aUnited States
942 _cMO
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