Surrealist Painting: Colour Library

by Simon Wilson

Book Overview

'Sexual instinct, feeling of death, physical notion of the enigma of space....' - these, according to Salvador Dal?, are the 'great vital constants' that make up the vocabulary of the language of the unconscious - the language of the Surrealist painters. Dealing with the fundamentals of human existence, the Surrealists tried to create an art that is universal in its significance, speaking directly to the spectator's deepest instincts.
Their painting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714827223
• ISBN13: 9780714827223
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.8" x 11.9"