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The playwright Carlo Gozzi marvelled at ‘The spectacle of women turned into men, men turned into women, and both men and women turned into monkeys’ in 18th-century Venice, and Jan Morris, visiting in the 1950s, did likewise. It would be more than a decade before Morris went under the knife, but already he was contemplating
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British Surrealism, manifestation in Great Britain of Surrealism, a European movement in visual art and literature that flourished between World Wars I and II and a deliberate attempt to unite the conscious and unconscious in the creation of art. British Surrealism in its organized, communal form was a short-lived and somewhat local phenomenon of the 1930s and ’40s, limited mostly to groups in the cities of London and Birmingham, but it had a deep impact on British culture. Although David Gascoyne, the foremost poet of the movement, emphasized the native sources of British Surrealism—addu...
It isn’t easy to define a made-in-Britain equivalent to the Paris Surrealists, but collectors are increasingly drawn to the uncanny side of British modernism
British Surrealism, manifestation in Great Britain of Surrealism, a European movement in visual art and literature that flourished between World Wars I and II and a deliberate attempt to unite the conscious and unconscious in the creation of art. British Surrealism in its organized, communal form