The Art Institute of Chicago
Museum Studies
Vol. 22, no. 2 (Fall 1996)
Edited by Susan F. Rossen
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, published twice annually, presents articles on the collections and history of the Art Institute. This special issue focuses on the Mary Reynolds Collection and some related works in the museum’s permanent collection. Mary Reynolds was a pivotal, although often unrecognized, figure in the Surrealist movement in Paris from the 1920s to the 1940s. She was also an artist in her own right, creating marvelous bookbindings that were inspired by Surrealism. This issue features a biographical study of Reynolds; a portfolio of her finest bookbindings; and essays on Dada and Surrealist journals, on the artists Leonora Carrington and Hans Bellmer, and on Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks in the context of contemporaneous developments in Surrealist art.
Articles in this publication:
Susan Glover Godlewski, “Warm Ashes: The Life and Career of Mary Reynolds”
Irene E. Hofmann, “Documents of Dada and Surrealism: Dada and Surrealist Journals in the Mary Reynolds Collection”
Sue Taylor, “Hans Bellmer in the Art Institute of Chicago: The Wandering Libido and the Hysterical Body”
Clare Kunny, “Leonora Carrington’s Mexican Vision”
Gail Levin, “Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, Surrealism, and the War”
200 pages, 8 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.
ISBN-13: 9780865591356
ISBN-10: 0865591350
