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100 years of Surrealism

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Surrealism Bookshelf

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WINNER OF CHOICE OAT 2024

Nina Möntmann's Decentring the Museum: Contemporary Art Institutions and Colonial Legacies (part of the New Directions in Contemporary Art series edited by Marcus Verhagen) has won CHOICE's Outstanding Academic Title award 2024!

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CELEBRATING 85 YEARS OF PUBLISHING

Lund Humphries turns 85 this autumn and we're celebrating with the publication of a biography of our erstwhile Chairman Peter Gregory (1887-1959) – the influential arts patron and collector who launched the company’s pioneering programme of art monographs in the mid-1940s: Peter Gregory: Publisher and Patron of Modern British Artists by art historian Valerie Holman.

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Surrealism Bookshelf

2024 marks 100 years since the Surrealist Manifesto was published. Why not celebrate the extraordinary inventiveness of Surrealist art with a book from our Surrealism Bookshelf?

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Image credits: SLIDE IMAGES: Annibale Carracci, River Landscape, 1590, oil on canvas, The National Gallery of Art, Washington. Samuel H. Kress Collection. Reproduced in 'Woodland Imagery'. Dorothea Tanning, The Philosophers, 1952, courtesy of Mimi Johnson, Photo: Margaret Fox; Helmer Osslund, Autumn Day at Torneträsk (1909), Nordiska Museum, Stockholm, Bertil Höglund/Nordiska Museet. Reproduced in 'A Circumpolar Landscape'. BROWSE BY THEME IMAGES: Modern and Contemporary Painters: Hurvin Anderson, Maracus III, 2004 © Hurvin Anderson. Courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery. Photo: Richard Ivey. Reproduced in ‘Hurvin Anderson’; Sculpture and Installation: Nigel Hall, Mirrored, 2011. Edition of 3. Bronze. Private Collection UK. Reproduced in 'Nigel Hall'. Women in the Arts: Emily Young carving Cautha (2019), Tuscany, Italy. Photograph by Joshua K. Jara. Reproduced in ‘Emily Young’; Hot Topics in the Art World: Photograph from the Art Business Conference, London, 2024. Surrealism: Dorothea Tanning, The Philosophers, 1952, courtesy of Mimi Johnson, Photo: Margaret Fox. Reproduced in 'Dorothea Tanning: Transformations'. Museums and Curating: A visitor at MbdK Leipzig. Photo: Dinah Casson. Reproduced in ‘Closed on Mondays’; History of Architecture: Lympne Castle, restored and extended by Robert Lorimer for Frank Tennant, from 1906. Photo: Robin Forster. Reproduced in ‘Edwardians and Their Houses’; The Future of Housing: Karl-Marx-Hof by Karl Ehn (1927-31), Art Kowalsky/Alamy. Reproduced in ‘Rebel Modernists’.