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Surrealism in Britain

Surrealism in Britain

Paperback

Series: Routledge Revivals

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ISBN10: 0367145731
ISBN13: 9780367145736
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 19 2021
Pages: 404
Weight: 1.80
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

This book was originally published in 1999, and is the first comprehensive study of the British surrealist movement and its achievements. Lavishly illustrated, the book provides a year-by-year narrative of the development of surrealism among artists, writers, critics and theorists in Britain.

Surrealism was imported into Britain from France by pioneering little magazines. The 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London, put together by Herbert Read and Roland Penrose, marked the first attempt to introduce the concept to a wider public. Relations with the Soviet Union, the Spanish Civil War and World War Two fractured the nascent movement as writers and artists worked out their individual responses and struggled to earn a living in wartime. The book follows the story right through to the present day.

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