Surrealists in New York Brand / Native Oz Bushfoods and Alexander Girard

and Alexander Girard

Surrealism

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Surrealists in New York Brand / Native Oz Bushfoods and Alexander GirardAn absorbing group biography revealing how exiles from war torn France brought Surrealism to America, helping to shift the centre of the art world from Paris to New York and spark the movement that became Abstract Expressionism. In 1957 the American artist Robert Motherwell made an unexpected claim: 'I have only known two painting milieus well the Parisian Surrealists, with whom I began painting seriously in New York in 1940, and the native movement