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Pop Surrealism Book

Possibly the smallest exhibition catalog ever published, Pop Surrealism was produced in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut during the summer of 1998. This little four-by-four-inch powerhouse packs a punch, however, with 74 jewel-like color reproductions and three essays on the show's thesis that surrealism has reentered the art world via mass media. The organizers of the exhibition identify several main themes within this growing trend: the grotesque body, icons of popular culture, and the fractured narratives of comics, TV, film, and advertising. The show included painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, and installation by artists such as Mariko Mori, Lari Pittman, Paul Henry Ramirez, Peter Saul, Kenny Scharf, Jim Shaw, Nicola Tyson, Takashi Murakami, Bonnie Collura, and many, many more. The catalog is a 157-page gem. --A.C. Smith Read More

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  • Product Description

    Description: Pop Surrealism highlights the recent explosion of pop-influenced surrealist art from an emerging generation of artists and a few key senior figures who have influenced their work. Designed in a special pocket format, this intriguing book offers a primer on the confluence of pop and surrealist iconography, and features work by over seventy artists, including Gregory Crewdson, Mariko Mori, Ashley Bickerton, Art Spiegelman, Tony Oursler, and Cindy Sherman. The book's informative essays consider such varied topics as the relation between comics and surrealism, Hollywood and surrealism, and the image of the grotesque body. Reviewing the exhibition for ArtForum, Steven Henry Madoff wrote: "The mutant sensibility at work in this droll, smartly curated exhibition proposes the marriage of Surrealism's dream-laden fetish for the body eroticized and grotesque and Pop art's celebration of the shallower, corrosively bright world given over the packaged good."

  • 1888332085
  • 9781888332087
  • Dominique Nahas, Richard Klein
  • 1 January 1999
  • Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,The,U.S.
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 160
  • illustrated edition
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