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Exhibition Review
But Live Here? No Thanks: Surrealism and Anti-Fascism
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 185–187
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Loreti, Silvia (Loreti, Silvia)
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But Live Here? No Thanks: Surrealism and Anti-Fascism Lenbachhaus, Munich 15th October 2024–2nd March 2025 | :
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25. Installation view of But Live Here? No Thanks: Surrealism and Anti-Fascism at the Lenbachhaus, Munich, 2024–25. (Courtesy Lenbachhaus, Munich; photograph Lukas Schramm).
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26. From the series Hitlerei (Hitler egg), by WoTi (Kati Horna and Wolf Hamburger). 1936. Gelatin silver print, 11.4 by 16.5 cm. (Private collection; exh. Lenbachhaus, Munich).
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27. Totem de la subjectivité blessée II, by Victor Brauner. 1948. Oil on canvas, 91.5 by 72.7 cm. (Centre Pompidou, Paris; exh. Lenbachhaus, Munich).
Exhibition Review
Surréalisme
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 57-61
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Hopkins, David (Hopkins, David)
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Surréalisme Centre Pompidou, Paris 4th September 2024–13th January 2025 | :
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28. Sans titre [main-coquillage] (Untitled; handshell), by Dora Maar. 1934. Gelatin silver print, 15 by 19.8 cm. (Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art modern, Paris; Rmn-Grand Palais, Paris).
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29. L’ange du foyer (Le Triomphe du surréalisme), by Max Ernst. 1937. Oil on canvas, 117.5 by 149.8 cm. (© AGAGP, Paris; private collection; photograph Vincent Everarts)
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30. Installation view of Surréalisme at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2024. (Courtesy Centre Pompidou, Paris; photograph J. Rodriguez- Garcia).
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31. Scylla, by Ithell Colquhoun. 1938. Oil on panel, 91.4 by 61 cm. (© Noise Abatement Society, Samaritans and Spire Healthcare; Tate).
Book Review
Surrealist Sorcery: Objects, Theories and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement
08/2024 | 1457 | 166
Pages: 886–7
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Richardson, Michael (Richardson, Michael)
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Surrealist Sorcery: Objects, Theories and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement By Will Atkin. 225 pp. incl. 10 col. + 80 b. & w. ills. (Bloomsbury, London, 2023), £57.60. ISBN 978–1–350–22748–4. | :
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6. Objet de contre-envoûtement, by Victor Brauner. 1943. Wax, clay, lead, wire, paper, wood and glass, 25 by 13.8 cm. (Centre Pompidou, Paris).
Exhibition Review
André Masson: Il n’y a pas de monde achevé
08/2024 | 1457 | 166
Pages: 848–51
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Taylor, Brandon (Taylor, Brandon)
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André Masson: Il n’y a pas de monde achevé Centre Pompidou-Metz 29th March–2nd September | :
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1. Louis Aragon, by André Masson. 1924. Ink on paper, 43 by 34.5 cm. (Private collection; exh. Centre Pompidou-Metz).
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2. Le Jardin saccagé (The ransacked garden), by André Masson. 1934. Oil on canvas, 82 by 116 cm. (Private collection; exh. Centre Pompidou-Metz).
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3. The labyrinth, by André Masson. 1938. Oil on canvas, 120 by 61 cm. (Centre- Pompidou, Paris; exh. Centre Pompidou-Metz).
Book Review
Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy: Ring of Iron, Ring of Wool
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 521–523
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McAra, Catriona (McAra, Catriona)
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Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy: Ring of Iron, Ring of Wool Edited by Victoria Noel-Johnson and Marzina Marzetti. 176 pp. incl. 120 col + b. & w. ills. (Skira, New York, 2023), £48. ISBN 978–88–572–5061–8. | :
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15. Unicorns came down to the sea, by Kay Sage. 1948. Oil on canvas, 92.1 by 71.8. cm. (Philadelphia Museum of Art).
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16. Aux aguets le jour, by Yves Tanguy. 1939. Oil on canvas, 40.6 by 30.5 cm. (Private collection).
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17. Ring of iron, ring of wool, by Kay Sage. 1947. Oil on canvas, 137.2 by 97.2 cm. (Mint Museum, Charlotte).
Article
Biting satire: notes on Salvador Dalí’s ‘Debris of an automobile’
12/2023 | 1449 | 165
Pages: 1305–1319
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Lomas, David (Lomas, David)
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1. Detail of Fig.2, showing a painter at an easel with the Ampurdan plain stretching beyond.
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10. The dream and lie of Franco, by Pablo Picasso. 1937. Aquatint and etching, image 31.7 by 42.1 cm. (Plate I, 8th January 1937, printed by Roger Lacourière; © Succession Picasso and DACS, London; Scala, Florence).
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11. Plate from Les Chants de Maldoror (Comte de Lautréamont), by Salvador Dalí. 1933–34. Photogravure and drypoint after celluloid engraving, 33 by 25 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Florence/bpk, Bildagentur fuer Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Berlin; Sprengel Museum, Hannover).
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12. The knight of death, by Salvador Dalí. c.1934. Oil on canvas, 65 by 54 cm. (Private collection; Bridgeman Images).
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13. Plate from Les Chants de Maldoror (Comte de Lautréamont), by Salvador Dalí. 1934. Photogravure and drypoint after celluloid engraving, 33.2 by 25.2 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Museum of Modern Art, New York).
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14. Expressions of fury in horses, a lion and a man, by Leonardo da Vinci. c.1503–04. Pen and ink with wash, and red chalk on paper, 19.6 by 30.8 cm. (© 2023 His Majesty King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
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15. Study for Suburbs of a paranoiac-critical town, by Salvador Dalí. 1935. Pencil and ink on paper, 32 by 22.8 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Berlin).
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16. Paranoiac woman-horse (invisible sleeping woman, lion, horse), by Salvador Dalí. 1930. Oil on canvas, 50 by 65 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; NPL – DeA Picture Library; Bridgeman Images; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris).
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17. Conversion of St Paul, by Caravaggio. 1601. Oil on canvas, 230 by 175 cm. (S. Maria del Popolo, Rome; Bridgeman Images).
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18. St George slaying the dragon or Roger and Angelica or Perseus and Andromeda, by Giorgio de Chirico. 1940. Oil on canvas, 91 by 116 cm. (Private collection).
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19. Battle for the Standard (re-touched copy after Leonardo da Vinci’s Battle of Anghiari), by Peter Paul Rubens. 1603. Black chalk, pen and paint on paper, 45.3 by 63.6 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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2. Debris of an automobile giving birth to a blind horse biting a telephone, by Salvador Dalí. 1938. Oil on canvas, 54.5 by 65.1 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Museum of Modern Art, New York).
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20. Paranonïa, by Salvador Dalí. c.1935–36. Oil on canvas, 38.1 by 46 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Dalí Museum, St Petersburg).
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21. Duncan’s horses, by Salvador Dalí. 1946. Pen and India ink on card, 25.3 by 19.4 cm. (Private collection).
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22. The city rises, by Umberto Boccioni. 1911. Tempera on card, 36 by 60 cm. (Jesi Collection, Milan; Bridgeman Images).
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3. The enigma of Hitler, by Salvador Dalí. 1938. Oil on canvas, 95 by 141 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Bridgeman Images; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid).
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4. Street lamp, study of light, by Giacomo Balla. 1909. Oil on canvas, 174.7 by 114.7 cm. (© Peter Willi; Bridgeman Images; Museum of Modern Art, New York).
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5. Detail of Fig.2, showing Gala as a winged Victory and a father and child with a Leonardesque rock formation at Cadaqués.
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6. Detail of Guernica, by Pablo Picasso. 1937. Oil on canvas. (© Succession Picasso and DACS, London; Bridgeman Images; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid).
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7. Detail of Fig.2, showing the horse and the light bulb hanging above it, which echoes the position of the electric light in Guernica.
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8. William Tell, by Salvador Dalí. 1930. Oil and collage on canvas, 113 by 87 cm. (© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí and DACS, London; Bridgeman Images; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris).
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9. Horse head: study for ‘Guernica’, May 2, 1937, by Pablo Picasso. Oil on canvas, 65 by 92 cm. (© Succession Picasso and DACS, London; Scala, Florence; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia, Madrid).
Book Review
Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism
12/2023 | 1449 | 165
Pages: 1372–1373
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Rhodes, Colin (Rhodes, Colin)
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Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism By Charles Darwent. 264 pp. incl. 93 b. & w. ills. (Thames and Hudson, London and New York, 2023), £25. ISBN 978–0–500–09426–6. | :
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5. Centauresse, by Stanley William Hayter. 1944. Colour engraving and soft-ground etching, 28.6 by 23.2 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Exhibition Review
Remedios Varo: Science Fictions
11/2023 | 1448 | 165
Pages: 1225-1228
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Harris, Steven (Harris, Steven)
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Remedios Varo: Science Fictions Art Institute of Chicago 29th July–27th November | :
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7. Ciencia inùtil, o El alquimista (Useless science, or The alchemist), by Remedios Varo. 1955. Oil on hardboard, 105 by 53 cm. (Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; exh. Art Institute of Chicago).
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8. Creación de las aves (Creation of the birds), by Remedios Varo. 1957. Oil on hardboard, 54 by 64 cm. (Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; exh. Art Institute of Chicago).
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9. Armonía (Harmony), by Remedios Varo. 1956. Oil on hardboard, 75 by 92.7 cm. (Private collection; exh. Art Institute of Chicago).
Short Notice
Surrealism: between politics and the picture book
10/2023 | 1447 | 165
Pages: 1117–1123
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Hopkins, David (Hopkins, David)
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Concepts of the World: The French Avant-Garde and the Idea of the International 1910–1940. By Effie Rentzou. 408 pp. incl. 37 b. & w. ills. (Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 2022), $120. ISBN 978–08–1014507–8. | :
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Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity. Edited by Vivien Greene et al. 272 pp. incl. 212 col. + 21 b. & w. ills. (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, and Prestel, Munich 2022), £40. ISBN 978–3–7913–7814–5. | :
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Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work. By Abigail Susik. 296 pp. incl. 16 col. + 46 b. & w. ills. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2021), £85. ISBN 978–1–5261–5501–6. | :
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1. Woman leaving the psychoanalyst, by Remedios Varo. 1960. Oil on canvas, 70.5 by 40.5 cm. (Art Resource, New York; Scala, Florence; photograph Bob Schalkwijk; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City).
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2. Le double monde, by Francis Picabia. 1919. Oil on canvas, 132 by 85 cm. (Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; RMN-Grand Palais, Paris; photograph Georges Meguerditchian).
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3. Machine á coudre électro-sexuelle, by Óscar Domínguez. 1934–35. Oil on canvas, 100.2 by 80.8 cm. (© ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London; Bridgeman Images; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid).
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4. Brouette no.1, by Óscar Dominguez. c.1936. Wood, felt and satin. (© ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London; Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris; RMN-Grand Palais, Paris).
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5. Attirement of the bride, by Max Ernst. 1940. Oil on canvas, 129.6 by 96.3 cm. (© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London; Bridgeman Images; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice).
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6. Portrait of Max Ernst, by Leonora Carrington. c.1939. Oil on canvas, 50.3 by 26.8 cm. (© Estate of Leonora Carrington; Artists Rights Society, New York, and DACS, London; National Galleries of Scotland).
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7. Les noces (The wedding), by Wifredo Lam. 1947. Oil on canvas, 215 by 197 cm. (Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Scala, Florence; bpk Bildagentur fuer Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Berlin; photograph Joerg P. Anders).
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8. Melusine and the Great Transparents, by Kurt Seigmann. 1943. Oil on canvas, 74.3 by 61 cm. (© Orange County Citizens Foundation; © Artists Rights Society, New York, and DACS, London; Bridgeman Images; Art Institute of Chicago).
Exhibition Review
Sade: Freedom or Evil
10/2023 | 1447 | 165
Pages: 1143–1146
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Padiyar, Satish (Padiyar, Satish)
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Sade: Freedom or Evil Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona 11th May–15th October | :
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23. Marquis de Sade, by Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo. 1760–62. Black chalk on paper, diameter 29 cm. (Musée d’Arts de Nantes; exh. Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona).
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24. After the performance o Relâche, by Toyen (Marie Čermínová). 1943. Oil on canvas, 104.5 by 47 cm. (Alšova Jihočeská Galerie / South Bohemian Gallery, Hluboká nad Vltavou; exh. Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona).
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25. PM 2010, by Teresa Margolles. 2012. 313 front pages of PM, 300 by 1300 cm. (Private collection; photograph Marta Gornicka; exh. Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona).
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