Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art by Sidra Stich, with essays by James Clifford, Tyler Stovall, and Steven Kovács

This richly illustrated catalog places a broad range of Surrealist art within its historical and intellectual context. Surrealism was born of the upheavals and confusion that arose in the aftermath of World War I. The Surrealists’ vision of the world reclaimed the suppressed realms of human expression and confronted contradiction, difference, disjunction, multiplicity, rupture, and incongruity. Significantly, the Surrealists called attention to oppositions while simultaneously breaking the barriers that separate them, thereby upsetting the polarizing we/they mentality that World War I had promoted, entrenched, and even ennobled. Rejecting a view of life characterized by binary oppositions, the Surrealists instead celebrated the coupling of irreconcilable realities.


$35.00, paperback
295 pages, 100 color and 141 black-and-white images
University Art Museum, Berkeley, and Abbeville Press, New York, 1990

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