Forbidden games : surrealist and modernist photography : the David Raymond collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art /

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Corporate author / creator:Cleveland Museum of Art, current owner, host institution.
Imprint:Cleveland, OH : Cleveland Museum of Art, [2014]
New Haven : Distributed for the Cleveland Museum of Art by Yale University Press, [2014]
©2014
Description:240 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10111821
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Varying Form of Title:Surrealist and modernist photography
David Raymond collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art
Other authors / contributors:Hinson, Tom E., curator, writer of supplementary textual content.
Walker, Ian, 1952 May 15- writer of supplementary textual content.
Kurzner, Lisa, writer of supplementary textual content.
ISBN:9780300208610
0300208618
9781935294252
1935294253
Notes:Catalog of an exhibition held at the Cleveland Museum of Art, October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015.
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:This handsomely illustrated volume is the public debut of the Surrealist photography collection of David Raymond that was recently acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art. Photography and its many techniques - photograms, montage, collage - played a vital role amongst Surrealist artists who sought to mine the unconscious and unsettle the everyday. Raymond's collection is distinctive in its breadth and quality and reflects the adventurous spirit of the movement's founder, Andre Breton. This book presents 178 vintage prints from the 1920s through the 1940s by artists from 14 countries. Works by notable artists including Brassai, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Dora Maar, and Man Ray are joined by rare examples by equally provocative but less well-known photographers. Essays by scholars Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker and Lisa Kurzner provide analysis and context, exploring the philosophy behind Raymond's selections as well as the history, techniques and symbolism of the photographs. Exhibition: Cleveland Museum of Art, USA (19.10.2014-11.1.2015).