Jindřich Heisler surrealism under pressure ; 1938-1953 ; [... published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by and presented at the Art Institute of Chicago from March 31 to July 1, 2012]
"Czech poet and photographer Jindřich Heisler (1914-1953) joined the Czech Surrealist Group in 1938, just as Nazi occupation of the country was driving the movement and Czech artists underground. Heisler published his first book of poetry a year later. In his brief and courageous career--Heisle...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New Haven, Conn. u.a.
Yale Univ. Pr. u.a.
2012
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| Ausgabe: | 1. ed. |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Czech poet and photographer Jindřich Heisler (1914-1953) joined the Czech Surrealist Group in 1938, just as Nazi occupation of the country was driving the movement and Czech artists underground. Heisler published his first book of poetry a year later. In his brief and courageous career--Heisler died suddenly at the age of thirty-eight--he produced some of the most remarkable assemblage work of the Surrealist movement, including what is arguably the single-most important photobook produced in the 20th century, From the Strongholds of Sleep (1940), which is reproduced in its entirety in this publication"--Jkt |
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| Beschreibung: | 144 S. zahlr. Ill. 31 cm |
| ISBN: | 0300179693 0-300-17969-3 9780300179699 978-0-300-17969-9 |