Chicago has for decades years been one of the most prominent cities where European Surrealism is avidly collected and displayed.
She is the author of Please Touch: Dada and Surrealist Objects After the Readymade..
About the Author: Janine Mileaf is executive director of the Arts Club of Chicago.
Including contributions by Robert Cozzolino, Adam Jolles, and Joanna Pawlik, the book provides a richly illustrated account of an international movement\'s unlikely--but somehow ever so fitting--Home in America.
Working independently, but within a chain of social and artistic relationships, this group explored the interior as a site of projected imagination and fantasy, and the self as the generator of such altered perception.
A Home for Surrealism focuses on a select group of painters whose work in the 1940s and \'50s both transformed the domestic and domesticated the surrealist, particularly in Chicago.
However, there has yet to be a scholarly exhibition and catalogue that addresses the local manifestations of this international mode of art.
Chicago has for decades years been one of the most prominent cities where European Surrealism is avidly collected and displayed
