Main entry:

Lichtenstein, Therese.

Title & Author:

Twilight visions : surrealism and Paris / Therese Lichtenstein ; with additional essays by Julia Kelly, Colin Jones, and Whitney Chadwick.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press ; Nashville : Frist Center for the Visual Arts, ©2009.

Description:

xi, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
"Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint"--Preliminary page.
Accompanies an exhibition held at Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 10, 2009-Jan. 3, 2010 and the International Center of Photography, New York, N.Y., Jan. 29-May 9, 2010, and at Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Ga., June 9-Oct. 10, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Darkly lit streets -- The city in twilight / Therese Lichtenstein -- Windows on the city -- The bureau of surrealist research / Julia Kelly -- Marvelous encounters -- Surrealist exhibitions, Parisian expositions / Colin Jones -- Portraits after-hours -- Mythic woman / real women : Embodying desire in 1938 / Whitney Chadwick -- Surreal figures.

Summary:

In their works, photographers such as Jacques-André Boiffard, Brassaï, Ilse Bing, André Kertész, Germaine Krull, Dora Maar, and Man Ray used fragmentation, montage, unusual viewpoints, and various technical manipulations to expose the disjunctive and uncanny aspects of modern urban life.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780520260818 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520260813
9780520271272
0520271270

Subject:

Surrealismus 1982
Street photography France Paris Exhibitions.
Surrealism Exhibitions.
Night photography Exhibitions.
Photographie de rue France Paris Expositions.
Surréalisme Expositions.
Photographie de nuit Expositions.
21.42 history of photographic art.
Manners and customs
Night photography
Street photography
Surrealism
Paris
Fotografie
Surrealisme.
Paris (France) Pictorial works Exhibitions.
France Social life and customs Exhibitions.
France Mœurs et coutumes Expositions.
Paris (France)
France Social life and customs.
France
France Paris
Parijs.
Paris <Motiv>

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
exhibition catalogs.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Exhibition catalogs
Exhibition, pictorial works
Tentoonstellingen (vorm)
Catalogues d'exposition.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, Tenn.)
International Center of Photography.
Telfair Museum of Art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 263958
Call No.: BIB 195272
Status: Available