Marvelous objects : surrealist sculpture from Paris to New York by Fletcher, Valerie J.

Table of Contents: “…Historical texts -- Poems by Jean Arp -- André Breton, "Manifesto of Surrealism" -- René Magritte, "Words and images" -- Salvador Dalí, "The object as revealed in Surrealist experiment" -- The abridged dictionary of Surrealism -- Poems by David Smith -- 3. …”


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Philippe Halsman : a retrospective : photographs from the Halsman Family collection

Table of Contents: “…. -- Lucille Ball -- Winston Churchill -- Jean Cocteau -- Hattie Carnegie -- Marc Chagall -- Sid Caesar -- Fred Allen -- Red Skelton -- Bobby Clark -- Ed Wynn -- Salvador Dali -- Giorgio De Chirico -- Marcel Duchamp -- Dorothy Dandridge -- Albert Einstein -- Mia Farrow -- Bobby Fischer -- Fernandel -- Connie Ford -- Judy Garland -- Zsa Zsa Gabor -- Eva Gabor -- Andre Gide -- Jackie Gleason -- Groucho Marx -- Martha Graham -- Erick Hawkins -- Ava Gardner -- Alfred Hitchcock -- Aldous Huxley -- Learned Hand -- Vladimir Horowitz -- John Huston -- Ricki Soma Huston -- Anjelica Huston -- Lena Horne -- Lloyd Harold -- Bob Hope -- Rita Hayworth -- Ingrid Bergman -- Jerry Lewis -- Dean Martin -- William Holden -- Liberace -- Edward Steichen -- Grace Kelly -- Eartha Kitt -- Danny Kaye -- Robert F. …”


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Ghost in the shell : photography and the human soul, 1850-2000 : essays on camera portraiture by Sobieszek, Robert A., 1943-2005

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Exiles + emigrés : the flight of European artists from Hitler

Table of Contents: “…: the agendas of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee / Elisabeth Kessin Berman -- Constructing a new Jewish identity : Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz / Matthew Affron -- On the passage of a few persons through a rather brief period of time / Romy Golan -- Surrealism in exile : responses to the European destruction of humanism : Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, André Masson, Yves Tanguy, Matta Echaurren / Sabine Eckmann -- New York's impact on modernity / Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian / Matthew Affron -- Experiencing the New World : Andreas Feininger, André Kertész / Deborah Irmas -- Bauhaus and exile : Bauhaus architects and designers between the old world and the new / Peter Hahn -- The Bauhaus architects and the rise of modernism in the United States / Franz Schulze -- Changing the agenda : from German Bauhaus modernism to U.S. internationalism : Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer / Kathleen James -- Purism and pragmatism : Josef Albers, László Moholy-Nagy / Sheri Bernstein -- Banned German art : reception and institutional support of modern German art in the United States, 1933-45 / Vivian Endicott Barnett -- The loss of homeland and cultural identity / George Grosz, Lyonel Feininger / Sabine Eckmann -- Transfer and transformation : the German period in American art history / Karen Michels -- Art history and exile : Richard Krautheimer and Erwin Panofsky / Kevin Parker -- The German migration : is there a figure in the carpet? …”


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