The colour of my dreams: the Surrealist revolution in art

Contents

Foreword / Kathleen S. Bartels -- Introduction. Exhibiting Surrealism / Dawn Ades -- Automatism -- Revolution by night. Haunting fathers: Giorgio de Chirico's The child's brain and Max Ernst's Pieta or Revolution by night / Dawn Ades -- The colour of my dreams. Painting as object: Joan Miró's Photo : Ceci est la couleur de mes rèves, Paris 1933 / Anne Umland -- Philosophy in a painting: André Masson's Ophelia (1937) / David Lomas -- Behind the screen. Surrealism and film / Michael Richardson -- Spaces of the unconscious. Forests/Labyrinths -- The surrealist object. The surrealist object: progeny of poetry and art / Timothy Baum -- Games/Cadavre exquis -- Reorganizing the visible world: Edward James, Salvador Dalí and the Lobster telephone / Sharon-Michi Kusunoki -- Brassaí: from automatic objects to involuntary sculptures / Quentin Bajac -- Dream habitats: Joseph Cornell -- Myths, maps, magic. Surrealist hybridity and Wifredo Lam's Deity / Whitney Chadwick -- 42, rue Fontaine / Anthony Shelton -- The lure of the Pacific Northwest. A conversation with a Tsimshian / Kurt Seligmann -- Ten rolls of 8mm film documenting Wolfgang Paalen's journey through British Columbia in Summer 1939 / Andreas Neufert -- Magical notebooks / Yves Le Fur -- Scavengers of paradise / Colin Browne -- A Kwakwaka'wakw headdress in André Breton's collection / Marie Mauzé -- Shape-shifting images / Robert Houle -- Anatomies of desire. The human condition.