The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art, Dawn Ades. Published by Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2011. First edition. Exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery May 28 to September 25, 2011. Grey boards with blue illustration and black titles, decorative endpapers. Small 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall., 335pp., with 257 color illustrations, bibliographical references. In fine condition.
Edited by Dawn Ade. Essays by Dawn Ades, Colin Browne, Timothy Baum, Quentin Bajac, Whitney Chadwick, Robert Houle, Sharon-Michi Kusunoki, Yves Le Fur, David Lomas, Marie Mauzé, Andreas Neufert, Michael Richardson, Anthony Shelton, Anne Umland and Kurt Seligmann.
A thematic history of the surrealist movement, addressing the work of its major artists—including Hans Bellmer, André Breton, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, René Magritte, Man Ray, André Masson, Lee Miller, Joan Miró and Yves Tanguy—and its diverse mediums: painting, sculpture, collage, drawing, box construction, film and photography.
