In Montparnasse : the emergence of surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali / Sue Roe.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2019Description: ix, 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780241976609
- 024197660X
- 1101981172
- 9781101981177
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
During the 1920s, in the Parisian neighbourhood of Montparnasse, a unique flowering of avant-garde artistic creativity became the cradle of Dada and Surrealism. In this crowd biography, Sue Roe tells the story - from Duchamp to Dali, via Man Ray and Max Ernst - of the salons and cafes, alliances and feuds, love affairs and scandals, successes and suicides of one of the most important and long-lasting artistic achievements of the twentieth century.
Originally published: UK: Fig Tree, 2018.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-291) and index.
During the 1920s, in the Parisian neighbourhood of Montparnasse, a unique flowering of avant-garde artistic creativity became the cradle of Dada and Surrealism. In this crowd biography, Sue Roe tells the story - from Duchamp to Dali, via Man Ray and Max Ernst - of the salons and cafes, alliances and feuds, love affairs and scandals, successes and suicides of one of the most important and long-lasting artistic achievements of the twentieth century.