{"product_id":"monsters-and-myths-isbn-9780847863136","title":"Monsters and Myths","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis revelatory survey of Surrealist masterworks of the 1930s and 1940s by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Max Ernst, and André Masson presents the movement through a new and timely lens--that of war, violence, and exile.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the pivotal years between the world wars, Surrealist artists on both sides of the Atlantic responded through their works to the rise of Hitler and the spread of Fascism in Europe, resulting in a period of surprising brilliance and fertility. Monstrosities in the real world bred monsters in paintings and sculpture, on film, and in the pages of journals and artists' books. \u003cbr\u003eDespite the political and personal turmoil brought on by the Spanish Civil War and World War II, avant-garde artists in Europe and those who sought refuge in the United States pushed themselves to create some of the most potent and striking images of the Surrealist movement. Trailblazing essays by four experts in the field trace the experimental and international extent of Surrealist art during these years--and, perhaps most unexpectedly of all, its irrepressible beauty.\u003cb\u003eOliver Tostmann \u003c\/b\u003eis Susan Morse Hilles Curator of European Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Conn.  Previously he was a curator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, where he curated the exhibitions \u003ci\u003eAnders Zorn. A European Artist Seduces America\u003c\/i\u003e (2013);\u003ci\u003e Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini. Sculptors' Drawings from Renaissance Italy\u003c\/i\u003e (2014); and \u003ci\u003eOrnament \u0026amp; Illusion: Carlo Crivelli of Venice \u003c\/i\u003e(2015). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOliver Shell\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art, curated various shows at the BMA, among them \u003ci\u003eMatisse Painter as Sculpture \u003c\/i\u003e(2007);\u003ci\u003e Rodin Expression and Influence\u003c\/i\u003e (2007); \u003ci\u003eA Circus Family: Picasso to Léger (2009); Advancing Abstraction in Modern Sculpture\u003c\/i\u003e (2010\/11); and \u003ci\u003eGerman Expressionism: A Revolutionary Spirit \u003c\/i\u003e(2014). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobin Adèle Greeley \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of Modern \u0026amp; Contemporary Latin American Art History at the University of Connecticut, and author of \u003ci\u003eSurrealism and the Spanish Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e (2006, Yale University Press). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamantha Kavky\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Art History at Pennsylvania State University-Berks. She is co-editor of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Surrealism and the Americas \u003c\/i\u003eand an expert on Max Ernst.","brand":"Rizzoli Electa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302085775589,"sku":"NP9780847863136","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780847863136.jpg?v=1767732939","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/monsters-and-myths-isbn-9780847863136","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}