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Title Surreal things : surrealism and design / edited by Ghislaine Wood.

Imprint London : V&A Publications, 2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  709.04063 Su778 2007    ---  Available
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.
Design -- Exhibitions.
Added Author Wood, Ghislaine.
Victoria and Albert Museum.
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Museo Guggenheim Bilbao.
ISBN 1851775005
9781851775002
1851775013 (pbk.)
9781851775019 (pbk.)
Standard No. YDXCP 100452968
NLGGC 301492344
NZ1 11126917
AU@ 000042217731

 
    
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