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Here is an imaginative tale about the unconventional fifteenth-century Flemish painter Hieronymus Bosch, as told by his wildly dissatisfied housekeeper. Caldecott Medalists Leo and Diane Dillon and their son, Lee, depict a most unusual household filled with pickle-winged fish, flying furniture, and additional bizarre delights.
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These are perfectly written tales, often amusing, always moving.”–Chicago Tribune
With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of tales a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that guide them to hold up a McDonald’s in the middle of the night; and a young woman discovers that she has become irresistible to a modest green monster who burrows up through her backyard.
By turns haunting and hilarious, The Elephant Vanishes is further proof of Murakami’s ability to cross the border linking separate realities — and to come back bearing treasure.
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Fantastic exhibition catalog featuring the work of Modern artists from Latin America, Mexico. Over 300 mostly color illustrations of works of art by Matta, Rivera, Lam and Torres-Garcia. Paintings, fresco, murals, Surrealism, Abstraction, political subjects, figures, Cubism. Includes notes / bibliography.
Hardcover. 295 pages. Measures 8 1.2 by 11 inches. Fascinating book / exhibit catalog, nicely illustrated.
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In this vastly original debut novel, Lee Redfern twists the art of the prose poem into a black comedy drama about melancholy, the loss of like and the idiosyncrasies of an unorthodox family living in a small southern coastal town with nowhere to go but out to sea.
In the town of Burningtree, the Boom family are local legends and Jake and Josef Boom know all about telltale a excellent yarn or two. Jake was once a local reporter and now sells flowers from his father’s overgrown garden. Josef, once a private tutor, is lost in the telltale of his own tale. When Jake’s girlfriend Mora goes missing, both him and his father turn over every stone to uncover the culprit in her evaporation.
Aided by war veteran Holwell Brown, White Nights café owner Arielle, Dal and Charlotte Mouswald, along with shady detective Paul Brothers and the equally surreptitious accountant Morton Campbell, Jake recounts each of their lives and how everybody has become wet in the rain somehow. Even when the ashes are still burning.
The Fall of Levitation brings together accounts of comedy, childhood, disaster, loss, death, murder and cannibalism. And like all excellent tales, it is at the end where our tale starts…
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Exhibition catalog featuring Modern art and sculpture. 34 black and white illustrations of sculpture, broadcast works, relief works, abstraction, Surrealism. Artists contain: Matta, Barbara Hepworth, Man Ray, Pomodoro, Cesar, Hubert Dolwood, Julio Gonzalez and additional artists. Softcover.
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Now back in stock: A collection of fabulous photographs by the foremost Surrealist artists.
Much has been written about Surrealist painting and sculpture, but most of the erotic, disorienting, and exquisite Surrealist photographs of Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Andre Breton, Brassai, Salvador Dali, Andre Kertesz, and Hans Bellmer have remained all but nameless–until now. Habitual criticism has viewed Surrealist photography as a pale imitation of authentic Surrealist work. The assumption has been that photography, a “realistic” medium, is fundamentally incompatible with a yield devoted to the wildly subjective, the world of dreams, and the unconscious. As a consequence, Surrealist photography, a major body of twentieth-century art, has remained largely unexplored.
L’ Amour fou is the first book to study the crucial role photography did in fact play in the Surrealist movement. It shows how photographers enlisted into the service of “subjective” Surrealism their medium’s very aver to “objective” reality. Of greatest appeal, of course, is the book’s abundant reproductions of the fantastic and distorted photographic creations that must be acknowledged as an vital part of the Surrealist oeuvre.
Additional Fine points: 200 duotones, 24 full-color illustrations. 9 x 12″ trim size. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C./Abbeville Press, New York, co-publishers. First published 1985.
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Is this the work of a visual genius or a thinker madman? Or both? Jeffery Scott is a photographic liar. The stunning and hyper-realistic photography presented here is not captured in real time, but through a laborious process of manipulation. Each depiction represents an average of fifty hours of meticulous work in which elements are assembled from dozens of images to construct the combined whole. Mr. Scott conjures incredible characters, environments and situations that thoroughly blur the line linking the real and the imagined. Layer upon layer of information reveals in-depth philosophies, concepts and tales. Thought-provoking titles communicate thoughts linking actor and viewer. This is a stunning introduction to deep emotive and contemplative realms.
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Fantastic book featuring an interview with contempoary actor, Francesco Clemente. 15 color and black and white illustrations of works of art by Clemente – paintings, drawings, figures, male nudes, self-portraits. Includes list of exhibitions and bibliography. Softcover.
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This is a historically informed examination of architecture’s perceived absence in surrealist thought, surrealist tendencies in the theories and projects of modern architecture, and the place of surrealist thought in contemporary design.
This book represents current insights into surrealism in the thought and practice of modern architecture. In these essays, the role of the subconscious, the techniques of defamiliarization, aesthetic and social forces affecting the objects, interiors, cities and landscapes of the twentieth century are revealed. The book contains a diversity of voices from across modern art and architecture to bring into focus what is often overlooked in the histories of the modernist avant-garde. This collection examines the practices of writers, artists, architects, and urbanists with emphasis on a critique of the everyday world-view, offering alternative models of subjectivity, artistic effect, and the production of meanings in the built world.
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Fantastic book featuring the art and life of Surrealist Modern actor Salvador Dali. 30 black and white illustrations of family photographs, portraits, Dali in his studio and illustrations of paintings, drawings by Dali. Includes a chronology of the actor.
Softcover. 302 pages. Measures 6 by 9 1/4 inches. Fascinating book, nicely illustrated.
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