A Home for Surrealism

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A Home for Surrealism explores how a select group of Chicago painters in the 1940s and '50s brought European Surrealism into a local context by transforming domestic interiors and the self into realms of fantasy and altered perception. Featuring richly illustrated scholarship, the book highlights how these artists, connected through social and artistic bonds, domesticated surrealist ideas in an American city renowned for its avid collection of surrealist art.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in art history, surrealism, and cultural studies, particularly those looking to understand the American and Midwestern dimensions of an international art movement.

First comprehensive attempt to characterize the appearance of surrealism in Chicago.

Description

Chicago has for decades years been one of the most prominent cities where European surrealism is avidly collected and displayed. However, there has yet to be a scholarly exhibition and catalogue that addresses the local manifestations of this international mode of art.

A Home for Surrealism focuses on a select group of painters whose work in the 1940s and ’50s both transformed the domestic and domesticated the surrealist, particularly in Chicago. Working independently, but within a chain of social and artistic relationships, this group explored the interior as a site of projected imagination and fantasy, and the self as the generator of such altered perception.

Including contributions by Robert Cozzolino, Adam Jolles, and Joanna Pawlik, the book provides a richly illustrated account of an international movement’s unlikely—but somehow ever so fitting—home in America.

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According to Art in America, this work examines artists like Gertrude Abercrombie and Dorothea Tanning, among others, who independently explored surrealism within Chicago's home interiors. The contributors highlight the city's prominent role in collecting European Surrealism while recognising the unique local contributions of these painters.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781891925498

Publisher: Arts Club of Chicago,U.S.

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 15 June 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Arts Club of Chicago,U.S.

Illustration: 40 color plates, 28 figures

Contributors:

Edited by Janine Mileaf
Contributions by Robert Cozzolino
Contributions by Adam Jolles
Contributions by Joanna Pawlik
Contributions by Marin Sarve-Tarr
Edited by Susan F. Rossen

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 179.0mm

Height: 273.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 136

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Janine Mileaf is executive director of the Arts Club of Chicago. She is the author of Please Touch: Dada and Surrealist Objects After the Readymade.