Description |
362 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm. |
Note |
"Published to coincide with the exhibition, Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design at the following venues: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 29 March-22 July 2007; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 29 September 2007-6 January 2008; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, 3 March-7 September 2008"--T.p. verso. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 350-354) and index. |
Contents |
Surreal things: making 'the fantastic real' / Ghislaine Wood -- I: Surrealism and the material world -- Uncommon object: surrealist concepts and categories for the material world / Ulrich Lehmann -- Illusory interior / Ghislaine Wood -- Nature made strange / Jennifer Mundy -- Shapes of life: biomorphism and American design / Ghislaine Wood -- Black materialism: surrealism faces the commercial world / Krzysztof Fijalkowski -- Displaying the body: surrealism's geography of pleasure / Alyce Mahon -- Fashion and surrealism / Dilys Blum -- Surrealist (sub-)version of advertising / Georges Roque -- Shocking: surrealism and fashion now / Thimo Te Duits -- II: Artist-designers -- Jean-Michel Frank: the surrealist interior / Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier -- Edward James, architect of surrealism / Sharon-Michi Kusunoki -- Dali's jewellery / Ghislaine Wood -- Joan Miro and ceramics / Paul Greenhalgh -- Post-war American textiles / Dilys Blum -- III: Surreal things -- 45 object entries / Alexander Klar, Thimo Te Duits, Ghislaine Wood. |
Subject |
Surrealism -- Exhibitions.
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Design -- Exhibitions.
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Added Author |
Wood, Ghislaine.
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Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
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Museo Guggenheim Bilbao.
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ISBN |
1851775005 |
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9781851775002 |
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1851775013 (pbk.) |
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9781851775019 (pbk.) |
Standard No. |
YDXCP 100452968 |
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NLGGC 301492344 |
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NZ1 11126917 |
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AU@ 000042217731 |
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