Morris, Desmond
Summary: Surrealism did not begin as an art movement but as a philosophical strategy, a way of life, and a rebellion against the establishment that gave rise to the First World War. In Lives of the Surrealists, Desmond Morris concentrates on the artists as people?as remarkable individuals. What were their personalities, their predilections, their character strengths and flaws?Unlike the Impressionists...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 MORKing, A. S. (Amy Sarig)
Summary: Jane Vandermaker-Cook would like her mother back. As Jane's mother tours the world to support the family, Jane lives and goes to school in a Victorian mansion with her younger brother and their mendacious father who confines Jane's mother to a system of pneumatic tubes whenever she's at home. And then there's weirdly ever-present Aunt Finch, Milorad the gardener, and his rat, Brutus. For Jane,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KINSummary: Set in pre-World War II Poland, a man visits the sanatorium where his father is dying and enters the surreal world where he relives some of his past and encounters strangeness at every turn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mr. Bongo Worldwide 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN HOUSummary: A compilation of all 156 episodes of Rod Serling's groundbreaking series. Travel through another dimension--not only of sight and sound, but of mind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV TwilightSummary: As animators, puppeteers, designers, writers, or directors, Philadelphia natives and identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay are renowned for artisanal methods and unusual sources of inspiration. Described as 'Kafkaesque' or 'post-apocalyptically Bruegelian' their films are inspired by twentieth-century European visual and literary culture, especially the surrealist and expressionist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International Corp. 2000
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE BROSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Carle, Eric
Summary: "Ducks growing out of bananas? A mouse catching a cat? What's wrong with this book? Yes, there's something strange, something funny, and even downright preposterous on every page of this book. But it's not a mistake--it's nonsense! And it's also surrealism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Carle 2015Summary: An obscure man with a vertical head of hair is living with his spaced-out girlfriend and their fetus-like child. By the end of the film, Henry is decapitated and processed into erasers in this bizarre horror film which closely approaches a nightmare.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY AVANT-GARDE ERASummary: The documentary takes viewers on an eye-opening journey through the life and work of the great Salvador Dali and his longtime muse and collaborator, Gala. The film begins in 1929, a crucial year in Dali's life and career, as he joined the surrealist group and met Gala, and ends in 1989, the year of his passing. Using archival footage, images, and documents (many of them never before used in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SALSummary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWILeslie, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithmark 1997
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Originally produced as individual silent motion pictures in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States, these twenty-five short films epitomize the avant garde movement of the 1920's and 1930's. The films are drawn from the collection assembled by Raymond Rohauer, one of the nation's foremost proponents of experimental cinema, founder of the Hollywood Film Society, and longtime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2005
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE AVASummary: Two French beggars on their way to Spain's holy city of Santiago de Compostela meet stigmatic children, crucified nuns, and others on their pilgrimage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MILAdes, Dawn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Art Institute 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.04 ADEMax
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MAXSummary: "An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DISSummary: A 1950 update of the Orphic myth by Jean Cocteau that depicts a famous poet scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead through Cocteau's famous mirrored portal. Orpheus represents the legendary Cocteau at the height of his abilities for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ORPErnst, Max
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameo/Abrams 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.3 ERNKahlo, Frida.
Summary: "Carlos Fuentes writes passionately and brilliantly about Frida Kahlo in the introduction of this book, which reproduces the pages and drawings of Kahlo's personal diary. Sarah M. Lowe, who wrote the commentaries and the essay, provides a more balanced view. Work is a curious gathering of thoughts and feelings, observations and annotations, and indeed makes the reader feel that he/she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams 1995
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Place a hold to request this item.Secrest, Meryle
Summary: "The first biography of the grand couturier, surrealist, and embattled figure (her medium was apparel), whose extraordinary work has stood the test of time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHIAPARELLI, ELSA SECSummary: Based on two Edgar Allen Poe stories and the works of the Marquis de Sade, uses live action, stop-motion animation and other methods to tell the story of a young man who becomes involved with a decadent marquis and his lavish and kinky lifestyle in 19th century France.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUNSummary: A screenwriter, revising the movie he is working on, finds that reality and fiction are blurring together when some of the characters in his film are showing up in real life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie SlipstreamSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006