Surrealism
dal 5/2/2002 al 12/5/2002
Segnalato da
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5/2/2002
Surrealism
Metropolitan Museum of Art - MET, New York
Desire Unbound. A central theme of Surrealism, a major artistic movement of the 20th century, was desire in its many manifestations. The first major survey of Surrealism in more than 20 years, this exhibition will present the richness and diversity of this obsessive but very human and constant theme through more than 300 paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, and films. The selection ranges in date from the decade anticipating the first manifestations of Surrealism in 1924 to more recent years.
Desire Unbound
A central theme of Surrealism, a major artistic movement of the 20th
century, was desire in its many manifestations. The first major survey of
Surrealism in more than 20 years, this exhibition will present the richness
and diversity of this obsessive but very human and constant theme through
more than 300 paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, and
films.
The selection ranges in date from the decade anticipating the first
manifestations of Surrealism in 1924 to more recent years.
Artists
represented include Giorgio de Chirico, Joseph Cornell, Salvador DalÃ,
Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, René
Magritte, Man Ray, André Masson, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso.
Many
of the icons of the Surrealist dream will be displayed as well as important
works by artists not yet widely known.
The achievement of women
associated with the Surrealists, sometimes overlooked in previous
surveys, will be strongly represented by painters such as Leonora
Carrington, Frida Kahlo, and Dorothea Tanning.
The exhibition is made possible in part by Jane and Robert Carroll. The
exhibition has been organized by Tate Modern, London. An indemnity has
been granted by the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall, 2nd floor
1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
New York 10028-0198
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