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Another World - Dali, Magritte, Miro and the Surrealists

Opens: 10/07/2010 Closes: 09/01/2011 Dean Gallery, Edinburgh
At the heart of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art's 50th anniversary programme is this impressive show of British and European Surrealist masters. Works from the gallery's own prized collection and rarely seen works from private collections have been gathered for a stunning one-off celebration of the movement. For more information visit: http://www.edinburghartfestival.com/10-festival-programme/b-dean-gallery-another-worl… Buy: http://www.nationalgalleries.org/tickets
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Guardian“An exceptionally thorough survey of surrealism...” For sheer graphic zip and register, for pictorial wit and intelligence, this is the strongest collection of surrealist art I can think of. And it is indeed a collection. Everything you see here belongs in perpetuity to the Scottish National...
 
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The Telegraph“It may be the most important show of the year...” The first painting by a Surrealist artist (a late work by AndrĂ© Masson) entered the collection as recently as 1967. And that is what should inspire us. Now that the prices at auction have made it almost impossible for our public collections...
 
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Financial Times“Surrealism, as this show dramatises, was truly a way of life...” The privately owned works here infuse this show with the piquancy and pathos of immediate encounters, and underline how deeply the personal provoked the aesthetic in this movement...
 
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Scotsman“A world centre for the study of Surrealism...” On the whole this is an exhibition to enjoy browsing cases of scrapbooks, photographs, ephemeral publications and suchlike, and so get a feeling of the vivid excitement and apparently inexhaustible invention of a cultural earthquake...
 
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