POST SURREALISM.

Author: Duncan, Michael
Country: California
Language: English
Year Published: 2002
No. of pages: 48
Illustrations: 26 Color Illustrations. 15 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 11”x 8 1/2”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN:
Biblio/Bio: Cat. of exh.
Code: 7135

Price: $29.50

Although small, in number, the pre-World War II West Coast Modernist community as far from provincial. Then, like today, artists who lived outside art world power bases were capable of making work that addressed the most challenging ideas of their time. Post Surrealism- a homegrown movement originated in the early 1930’s by Los angeles artists Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lunderberg- was a sophisticed, intellectual reaction to Surrealism, made at a time when the European-based movement was barely known in this country. The Post Surrealists crea†ed symbolic tableaux based not on random dream imagery but on conscious, rational associations. This exhibition= the first in depth re-examination of the fledgling movement-builds on the 1995 survey, Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in California Art, 1934-1959. Besides key paintings by Feitelson and Lunderberg, included here are works by San Francisco artist Lucien Labaudt and Los angeles painters Knud Merrild, Grace Clements, Harold Lehman, Reuben Kadish, and Philip Guston( Goldstein). Selected alos are two painting by the enigmatic Ben Berlin.