A New Modernism for a New Millennium: Abstraction and Surrealism are Reinvented in the Internet Age

exhibition catalog for The Logan Collection Vail

From Dean Sobel’s essay:
Of the many movements in twentieth-century art, perhaps none is more polymorphous than Surrealism. Stylistically, it embraces complete abstraction (the automatism of André Masson and Jean Arp), hallucinatory landscapes (Salvador Dali and Yves Tanguy), figuration and portraiture (the steely automatons of Giorgio de Chirico or Carla Carrà), and fantastic narratives (alluded to in the work of René Magritte, Max Ernst, and Paul Delvaux). Surrealism, which also spans literature and film, is united by a shared outlook that permiated post-War avant-garde circles in Europe, namely that pre-War forms of art making were no longer convincing. In many respects, Surrealism is the prototype for the stylistic freedom employed by artists working today under the emblem of postmodernism, a period when the ideals and images of high modernism seem equally time-worn and perhaps invalid.

72 pages
7.75 x 9 inches