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An exhibition currently touring
(2007-2010) through Europe and North America,
“Surreal Things, Surrealism and Design,”
developed by the Victoria and Albert Museum in
London, sets in relief that movement’s penchant
for producing objects of use in
contradistinction to the normal art output of
objects of contemplation. As such, Surrealist
manufacturers insinuated an enhanced sense of
the real into the course of a marketplace for
deluxe goods. Such a priority would have
resonated with graphic artists of the inter-war
years, who could have detected a similar
objective at the outset of poster art, namely,
the Belle Époque (like Surrealism, centered upon
Paris).
In the following pages, we have
gathered together from our collection
accomplished instances caught up in the
Surrealist invitation to not only cherish rare
mysteries, but buy them and take them back to
homes that would thereby become less mundane (or
reserve seats for attractions similarly
motivated). |
