• This book brings together over 160 of the finest surrealist artworks by legendary artists including Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joan Miró and Man Ray • The works hail from the four renowned and extraordinary private collections of Edward James, Roland Penrose, Gabrielle Keiller and Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch, and together offer a superb overview of surrealist art Ten essays explore the different origins, historical contexts and creative urges behind these collections. Artworks, perhaps more than anything else that one can acquire, are objects of desire and surrealist artworks even more so. The sheer quality of the works acquired (and, in the case of the Pietzsches, still being acquired) is astonishing and, while passionate about their private visions, all the collectors have been mindful of contributing something to the public good. The collections complement each other to an extraordinary degree and allow us to follow some of the artists' careers from beginning to end. By uniting them, exciting new juxtapositions emerge along with a fuller and richer picture of the surrealist movement as a whole.

Surreal Encounters: Collecting the Marvellous

Arts & Photography

Cowling, Elizabeth

Calvocoressi, Richard

Ades, Dawn

Hartley, Keith

PENROSE, Antony

Gaßner, Hubertus

de Chair, Désirée

Görgen-Lammers, Annabelle

van Kampen-Prein, Saskia

History & Criticism

National Galleries Of Scotland

Although the Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck was one of Scandinavia’s most important artists, however outside her own region, she is virtually unknown. For a comprehensive retrospective in Hamburg, The Hague, and Paris, more than 120 of her works have been brought together from more than 40 international private and public collections. Thus, this book, a catalogue of the retrospective, is the first monograph about the fascinating art of Schjerfbeck.

Helene Schjerfbeck: 1862-1946

Gorgen, Annabelle

Individual Artists

Hirmer Verlag

R. B. Kitaj

Kugelmann, Cilly

Kerber Verlag

The lavishly illustrated Regarding Beauty surveys late twentieth-century Western art to address why the timeless notion of beauty has recently been so hotly contested and, in the 1980's and 1990's in particular, so highly politicized.... Regarding Beauty argues that beauty has not disappeared from the dialogue of art and that, on the contrary, it has persisted as an essential element in the evolution of art as the 20th century passes into history.

Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century

Reference

Danto, Arthur Coleman

Benezra, Neal David

Viso, Olga M.

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Hirschorn Museum & Sculpture

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