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Book Review
Surrealist Sorcery: Objects, Theories and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement
08/2024 | 1457 | 166
Pages: 886–7
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Reviewer:
Richardson, Michael (Richardson, Michael)
Subjects
subjects:
Surrealism / Magic
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Surrealist Sorcery: Objects, Theories and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement By Will Atkin. 225 pp. incl. 10 col. + 80 b. & w. ills. (Bloomsbury, London, 2023), £57.60. ISBN 978–1–350–22748–4. | :
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Attributed works:
6. Objet de contre-envoûtement, by Victor Brauner. 1943. Wax, clay, lead, wire, paper, wood and glass, 25 by 13.8 cm. (Centre Pompidou, Paris).
Exhibition Review
Picasso: Magic Paintings. Musée national Picasso-Paris
02/2020 | 1403 | 162
Pages: 154-158
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Reviewer:
Green, Christopher (Green, Christopher)
Subjects
art literature:
Zervos, Christian
artists:
Picasso, Pablo
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Musée Picasso, Paris, France
subjects:
French art / Magic / Paintings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Picasso: Magic Paintings Musée national Picasso-Paris 1st October 2019–23rd February | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. Harlequin, by Pablo Picasso. 1927. Oil on canvas, 81.3 by 65.1 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; © Succession Picasso 2019; exh. Musée national Picasso- Paris).
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23. Guitar, by Pablo Picasso. 27th April 1927. Oil and charcoal on canvas, 81 by 81 cm. (Musée national Picasso- Paris; © RMNGrand Palais and Succession Picasso 2019).
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24. Figure, by Pablo Picasso. Summer 1927. Oil on canvas, 100 by 82 cm. (Centre Pompidou, Paris; © RMNGrand Palais and Succession Picasso 2019; exh. Musée national Picasso- Paris).
Book Review
The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism. By Whitney Chadwick
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1075-1076
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Reviewer:
Cheale, Matthew (Cheale, Matthew)
Subjects
art literature:
Breton, André / Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850
artists:
Carrington, Leonora / Cahun, Claude / Agar, Eileen / Fini, Leonor / Penrose, Valentine / Paalen, Alice / Kahlo, Frida / Lamba, Jacqueline / Moore, Marcel / Miller, Lee
dates:
1900-1999
media:
Books / Documents / Photographs / Paintings
places:
France / Mexico
subjects:
Artists' writings / Correspondence / Biographies / Poetry / Surrealism / Women / Women artists / Gender / Magic / Occultism / Mysticism / Alchemy / Nazism / World War (1939-1945) / Collaborators / Literature
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
5. Jacqueline Lamba and Frida Kalho in Pátzcuaro, Mexico. 1938. Photograph. (Private Collection; © Association Atelier André Breton and ADAGP).
Exhibition Review
André Breton. Villeneuve d’Ascq
09/2017 | 1374 | 159
Pages: 745-747
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Reviewer:
Parkinson, Gavin (Parkinson, Gavin)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Musée d'Art moderne de Lille, Villeneuve d Ascq, France
subjects:
Breton, André / Surrealism / Naïve art / Magic
Reviewed Items
subjects:
André Breton et l'Art magique | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
70. Composition symbolique, by Augustin Lesage. 1928 (Lille metropole musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'Art brut, Villeneuve d'Ascq; photograph © ADAGP Paris)
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71. Installation view of Yüksel Arslan at LaM, Villeneuve d'Ascq, 24th June to 15th October.
Attributed works:
72. Double face chromatic notation: large head in an open mouth (verso), by Charles Filiger. 1890 (Musée des beaux arts de Quimper; exh. LaM, Villeneuve d'Ascq)
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73. Giant anteater, by André Breton. 1962 (Musee d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris; exh. LaM, Villeneuve d'Ascq; © ADAGP Paris)