Roland Penrose

by Penrose, Antony

• ISBN13: 9783791324920
• ISBN10: 3791324926
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Prestel Pub

Summary

"Penrose" wrote Andre Breton "est Surrealiste dans l'amitie" -- and "The Friendly Surrealist" is an apt description for the man who more than any other nurtured the friendships and contacts which introduced European Surrealism to the British art world. This touching memoir, written by his son Antony, is published to accompany an important retrospective exhibition in Edinburgh and is richly illustrated with contemporary photographs, including those of his second wife (the author's mother), Lee Miller.

Born in 1900 into a strict Quaker family, Penrose discovered the Bloomsbury set in Cambridge before embarking upon a life driven by a passion and fascination for modern art. He embraced the Surrealist movement and the intensively creative spirit of the times through his friendships with Picasso (of whom he wrote an important biography), Man Ray, Miro, Ernst, and his first wife, the Gascan poet Valentine Bouet. His own paintings, sculptures and collages form an important and often overlooked contribution to the canon of international Surrealism.

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Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(8)
George Melly
Preface	8	(2)
Prologue	10	(1)
1900-19 'As the Twig is Bent...'	11	(7)
1919-23 Cambridge to Paris	18	(8)
1923-31 Cassis and Paris	26	(34)
1932-35 Le Menage Surrealiste	60	(10)
1936-37 Surrealism in England	70	(12)
1937-39 The Road is Wider than Long	82	(13)
1939-46 Black Music	95	(37)
1946-50 Forks in the Road	132	(10)
1951-59 Surrealism in Muddles Green	142	(9)
1960-70 Sir Realist	151	(10)
1970-84 Illusion and Reality	161	(10)
Epilogue	171	(1)
Notes	172	(7)
Roland Penrose: Chronology	179	(4)
Roland Penrose: The Major Works	183	(3)
Selected Bibliography	186	(1)
Index	187