{"title":"Books by Dawn Ades","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780500204672","title":"Photomontage","description":"Manipulation of the photograph is as old as photography itself. It has embodied and enlivened political propaganda, satire, publicity and commercial art, and created evocations of the ‘brave new world’ of the future through surreal and fantastic visions. Photomontages were made by, among others, the Dadaists, John Heartfield, El Lissitzky, Hannah Hoch and Alexander Rodchenko, and many of their works were reproduced for the first time in print when this groundbreaking study was originally published.    Revered by academics, critics and readers alike, this new edition with updates is still the only definitive guide to the subject.   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This book reconsiders the Dalí phenomenon, from his early years and the development of his technique and style to his relationship with the surrealists, his exploitation of Freudian ideas, and the image that he created of himself as the mad genius artist.Dalí","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56290913157493,"sku":"9780500204764","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780500204764_1486e165-1b70-49bd-89eb-91c67716627f.jpg?v=1786013840"},{"product_id":"9780500204702","title":"Marcel Duchamp","description":"Genius, anti-artist, charlatan, guru, impostor? Since he arrived on the scene in 1914, Marcel Duchamp has been called all of these. Almost no other artist of the twentieth century has inspired more passion and controversy, nor exerted a greater influence on art. At the same time, Duchamp continually challenged the very nature of art and strove to redefine it as conceptual rather than as product by questioning why the medium was mostly a \"retinal\" experience.Fountain; Bicycle Wheel; L.H.O.O.Q.;Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2This revised entry in the World of Art series, written by three leading experts on twentieth-century art, and published with support of Duchamp’s widow, is one of the most original books written on this enigmatic artist. Featuring a new chapter and preface, as well as updates throughout from specialist scholars who are active in their fields, this is the definitive introduction to Duchamp. Thoroughly illustrated, this volume combines thirty years of research by the authors and challenges history’s presumptions, misunderstandings, and pieces of misinformation about Marcel Duchamp and his legacy.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56291229663605,"sku":"9780500204702","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780500204702_98dc4aaa-cac8-4b62-913e-c40878219018.jpg?v=1786013835"},{"product_id":"9781857097252","title":"Jose Maria Velasco – A View of Mexico","description":"An overdue introduction to one of the Americas’ most eminent nineteenth-century artists, the Mexican painter José María Velasco José María Velasco (1840–1912) is considered the greatest Mexican landscape painter of the nineteenth century. In portraying his native country during decades of enormous societal change, he depicted its magnificent scenery, storied past, and rapid industrialisation, most famously in his monumental representations of the Valley of Mexico, the area surrounding modern Mexico City.    Velasco was a true polymath, and much more than a painter of the national landscape. He was also a practising botanist, naturalist, and geologist with highly developed interests in archaeology and cartography. His curiosity about the natural world profoundly shaped his work.    This book, the first monograph on Velasco to be published outside Mexico, provides a fresh appraisal of his work. Essays by scholars from the United States, Britain, and Mexico focus on his life and career, his interest in contemporary science, and his legacy for artists today.   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Presented in three parts, the text first looks at Kahlo’s political and artistic awakening in a newly post-revolutionary society. In the second part, close readings unpack her paintings’ dense, layered symbolism and often highly personal relationship to the popular traditions and visual languages of Mexico. The final section considers her association with Surrealism and the evolving connections between her art and her politics.   The book incorporates text from Ades’s essay Kahlo, Surrealism, and the Mexican Revolution, originally published in 2016 for the exhibition Frida Kahlo at the Dali at The Dali Museum in Florida, as well as her unpublished lecture Frida Kahlo and Surrealism: A Disavowal.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56420634591605,"sku":"9780500031605","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-dawn-ades.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}