Dawn Ades

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La manipulación de la fotografía es tan antigua como la fotografía misma: ha servido para la propaganda política y también ha personificado o revitalizado la sátira, la publicidad y el arte comercial; ha creado evocaciones del ?mundo feliz? del futuro, asi como visiones surrealistas y fantasticas. Los dadaistas, Heartfield, El Lissitzki, Rodchenko y Max Ernst, entre otros, realizaron fotomontajes, y muchos de ellos fueron reproducidos por primera vez en este libro que ahora se ha convertido en un clasico y obra de referencia obligada. La autora, Dawn Ades , nacio en 1943, se graduo en la Universidad de Oxford y estudio Historia del Arte en el Courtauld Institute, Universidad de Londres. Es catedratica de Historia y Teoria del Arte en la Universidad de Essex. Entre las exposiciones queha contribuido a organizar se cuentan Dada and Surrealism Reviewed (1978), Salvador Dali en la Tate Gallery de Liverpool (1998) y Francis Bacon, Dada y Surrealismo en la Bienal de Sao Paulo (1998). Ha publicado, entre otras obras, Francis Bacon (1985) , Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820-1980 (1993), y Surrealism: Desire Unbound (2001).

Un libro de lujo sobre la obra completa de uno de los pintores más famosos y controvertidos de nuestro tiempo, Dalí, cuando se está celebrando el centenario de su nacimiento.Dalí es el uno de los artistas mas famosos y reconocibles del mundo, asi como uno de los mas controvertidos. En el siglo XX, ningun otro pintor de renombre ha conseguido conjugar tan bien la fascinacion que ejercia sobre el publico con las aguerridas criticas procedentes de las instituciones oficiales y de los criticos de arte moderno. El catalogo de esta exposicion, celebrada en 2004 en el Palazzo Grassi de Venecia y que conmemora el centenario de su nacimiento, es una ocasion para reestablecer su discutida fama, Gala, y analizar en profundidad su obra artistica, sacando a la luz los matices y las apuestas mas significativas.

Salvador Dali is perhaps the most universally famous and popular artist of the twentieth century. On the occasion of the centenary of his birth comes the definitive retrospective of the artist's work from his early years. Dali explores the development of the artist's technique and style, his relationship with the Surrealists, and his exploitation of Freudian ideas, as well as the image Dali created of himself as the mad genius artist. This catalogue will be the major reference work for Dali for decades to come. It includes illustrations of all the works loaned to the exhibition, as well as comparative illustrations and photographs. The volume contains an introductory essay by Dawn Ades, with scholarly research incorporated in a 'Dali Dictionary' in the entries on individual works, and in the chronology, which includes a quantity of new material. The guide draws upon the best scholarship available on Dali, including that of Hank Hine, Director of the Salvador Dali Museum, Jennifer Mundy, Senior Curator at the Tate, and Michael Taylor, Acting Chief Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

World-renowned for her work during the Weimar period, Hannah Hoch was a pioneer in many aspects, both artistic and cultural. She was the lone woman of the Berlin Dada movement - the riotous form of art that deconstructed sound, language, and images to re-assemble them into new objects, texts and meanings. Hoch was a pivotal force in the development of collage, paving the way for today's ubiquitous image editing techniques. A determined believer in women's rights, Hoch questioned conventional concepts of partnership, beauty and the making of art, her work presenting acute critiques of racial and social stereotypes, particularly that of her native Germany. Focusing on Hoch's collages, this book examines the artist's career from the 1920s to the 1970s, charting her oeuvre from early works influenced by fashion and mass media, through to her later compositions of lyrical abstraction. It reveals her rapid development of a personal style, which was both humorous and often moving, but also offered critical commentary on society at a time of tremendous social change. Included are essays that examine themes such as the concept of the "New Woman" and the legacy of German colonialism. Featuring international scholarship on a groundbreaking artist, this volume brings together important source texts and reference material, translated for the first time into English.