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  • Death And The Penguin
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    Death And The Penguin

    Kurkov, Andrey

    A blackly comic, bittersweet satirical novel about Ukraine, a writer and a pet penguin All that stands between one man and murder by the mafia is a penguin. Viktor is an aspiring writer with only...
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  • Box Man
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    Box Man

    Abe, Kobo

    Kobo Abe's existential and entertaining masterpiece 'This is the record of a box man' The streets of Tokyo have been seeing a strange phenomenon recently - people who have decided to live their...
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  • Max Ernst
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    Max Ernst

    Ulrich Bischoff

    With unparalleled artistic originality Max Ernst (1891-1976) transformed everything he touched. By pushing the boundaries and breaking loose from the confined view of the culture of his time, he...
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  • Dalí
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    Dalí

    Gilles Néret

    Painter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker, and all-round showman Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) was one of the 20th century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics. One of the first artists to apply the...
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  • Dalí
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    Dalí

    "Les diners de Gala is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of taste ... If you are a disciple of one of those calorie-counters who turn the joys of eating into a form of punishment, close this book at...
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  • Dalí
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    Dalí

    Gilles Néret

    At the age of six, Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) wanted to be a cook. At the age of seven, he wanted to be Napoleon. "Since then," he later said, "my ambition has steadily grown, and my megalomania with...
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  • Magritte
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    Magritte

    Marcel Paquet

    From men in bowler hats, floating in the sky, to a painting of a pipe above the caption "this is not a pipe", René Magritte (1898-1967) created an echo chamber of object and image, name and thing,...
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  • Klee
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    Klee

    Susanna Partsch

    With meticulous theories and many thousands of paintings, drawings, and watercolors, Paul Klee (1879-1940) is considered one of the most cerebral and prolific leaders of 20th-century European art...
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  • Philip Grözinger
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    Philip Grözinger

    Nicole Gnesa

    Philip Grözinger's art derives from his investigations of future-oriented visions. With his individualistic painterly signature he invites the viewer to join him on a surreal journey through the...
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  • Surrealism and Design Now
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    Surrealism and Design Now

    Kathryn Johnson

    Surrealism was one of the most influential cultural movements of the twentieth century. Subverting the dogmas of modernism and rationalism in art and literature, it also had a profound impact on the...
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  • Lives of the Surrealists
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    Lives of the Surrealists

    Desmond Morris

    No other art movement in history has contained two artists as different as Magritte and Miró. This is because Surrealism was not in origin an art movement, but a philosophical strategy. It was a way...
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  • Surrealism
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    Surrealism

    Dr Amy Dempsey

    Surrealism was launched as a literary and artistic movement by French poet André Breton in 1924, and by the time of his death in 1966 had become one of the most popular art movements of the 20th...
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  • Pop-Up Surrealism
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    Pop-Up Surrealism

    Gérard Lo Monaco

    Open the door to the dreamlike world of surrealism! In this magical book, pop-up engineer Gérard Lo Monaco brings to life eight works of art by leading surrealists: Salvador Dalí, Victor Brauner,...
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  • Dalí
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    Dalí

    "Les diners de Gala is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of taste ... If you are a disciple of one of those calorie-counters who turn the joys of eating into a form of punishment, close this book at...
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  • Matisse
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    Matisse

    Gilles Néret

    Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbrush for long. In this late phase of his life-he was...
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  • White Rabbits/Down Below
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    White Rabbits/Down Below

    Carrington, Leonora

    Playful, sharp and fantatsical: a new selection of writing by Leonora Carrington, the last great Surrealist In 1940, Leonora Carrington - a twenty-two-year-old British-born Surrealist artist - was...
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  • Magritte in 400 images
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    Magritte in 400 images

    Julie Waseige

    Magritte in 400 images offers a selection of the most iconic paintings from the master Surrealist, René Magritte, along with a multitude of perhaps less well-known, but no less exciting jewels from...
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  • Frida Kahlo
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    Frida Kahlo

    Luis-Martín Lozano

    Among the women artists who have transcended art history, none had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). Her unmistakable face, depicted in over fifty extraordinary...
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  • Surrealism
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    Surrealism

    Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy

    With Salvador Dalí as its figurehead, the great ship of Surrealism traversed the turbulent seas of the early 20th century with sails billowing with dreams and desires. Inspired by the...
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  • Frida Kahlo
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    Frida Kahlo

    Andrea Kettenmann

    The arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907-54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and...
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  • Open Wide
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    Open Wide

    Gross, Jessica

    A provocative novel about intimacy, love and consent: Open Wide will quite literally get under your skin By the time we'd said 'I love you' and kissed goodnight and turned out the light, thoughts of...
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    Mouse Folk

    Kafka, Franz

    Relish a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Franz Kafka, the great chronicler of anxiety and estrangement, in this collection of uncanny animal tales led by his masterpiece, 'Josephine the Singer, or The Mouse...
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  • In Watermelon Sugar
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    In Watermelon Sugar

    Brautigan, The Estate of Richard

    Relish a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Richard Brautigan, the whimsical poet of the counterculture, in his surreal and enchanting novel, In Watermelon Sugar. A psychedelic post-apocalyptic vision of a world...
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  • My Curious Years with Charles Henri Ford
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    My Curious Years with Charles Henri Ford

    Indra B. Tamang

    Told as much through images as through words, a young Nepalese man’s globe-spanning relationship with "the father of American surrealism" changes the course of his life and gives him a new set of...
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    Black Surrealist: The Legend of Ted Joans

    Belletto, Steven

    Best Monograph, 2026 Beat Studies Association Awards Black Surrealist. Poet. Collage artist. Jazz trumpeter. Painter. Member of the Beat Generation. Life-long wanderer. Pan-Africanist. Black Power...
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  • Beautiful Days
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    Beautiful Days

    Williams, Zach

    Thrillingly original and deeply surreal - uncanny stories about manhood and modern America A young family are trapped in a time loop in an idyllic holiday cabin. A middle-aged man becomes convinced...
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  • Aesthetic Violence and Women in Film
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    Aesthetic Violence and Women in Film

    Joseph Kupfer

    Aesthetic Violence and Women in Film is a highly readable and timely analysis of the intersection of two recent cinematic trends in martial arts films: aesthetic violence and warrior women.Joseph...
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  • Aesthetic of Elizabeth Bowen’s Novels
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    Aesthetic of Elizabeth Bowen’s Novels

    Diana Hirst

    This is the first monograph to evaluate Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘verbal painting’, and the first to acknowledge the influence of the East Kent landscape in her novels. Drawing on the work of critics and on...
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  • Surrealism and the People’s Republic of China
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    Surrealism and the People’s Republic of China

    Lauren Walden

    This study investigates cultural exchange between the Surrealist movement and the People’s Republic of China (1949-present).Surrealist art was officially prohibited under Mao’s rule (1949-1976)...
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  • Mama Dada
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    Mama Dada

    Sarah Bay-Cheng

    Mama Dada is the first book to examine Gertrude Stein's drama within the history of the theatrical and cinematic avant-gardes. Since the publication of Stein's major writings by the Library of...
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  • New Surrealism
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    New Surrealism

    Robert Zeller

    New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting by Robert Zeller offers a sweeping exposition of both historical Surrealism and its legacy in the world of contemporary art. It demonstrates the...
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  • AfroSurrealism
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    AfroSurrealism

    Rochelle Spencer

    Examining the surrealist novels of several contemporary writers including Edwidge Danticat, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, Junot Díaz, Helen Oyeyemi, and Colson Whitehead, AfroSurrealism, the first...
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  • Surrealism: Key Concepts
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    Surrealism: Key Concepts

    Krzysztof Fijalkowski

    Emerging from the disruption of the First World War, surrealism confronted the resulting ‘crisis of consciousness’ in a way that was arguably more profound than any other cultural movement of the...
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  • Surrealism, Occultism and Politics
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    Surrealism, Occultism and Politics

    Tessel M. Bauduin

    This volume examines the relationship between occultism and Surrealism, specifically exploring the reception and appropriation of occult thought, motifs, tropes and techniques by Surrealist artists...
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  • Ways of Looking at Art
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    Ways of Looking at Art

    Martin Jackson

    TRANSFORM YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO ART WITH 50 ILLUSTRATED PROMPTSRethink how you see. Each card offers a different way of looking at anything from graffiti to sculpture, painting to tapestry. Have a...
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  • The Story of Surrealism 500 pieces
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    The Story of Surrealism 500 pieces

    Brecht Vandenbroucke

    Piece together the artists, poets and muses behind the movement that turned the art world on its head, and then pushed it through the looking glass.Wander the abandoned streets of a Giorgio de...
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  • Frida
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    Frida

    Claire Berest

    'The portrait of a fascinating, eccentric, and indomitable woman . . . an incandescent novel' Elle'No author has yet captured Frida's tragic life in words as sensually and passionately as this'...
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