The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies: Mary Reynolds and the Spirit of Surrealism

The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, published twice annually, presents articles on the collections and history of the Art Institute. This special edition focuses on the Mary Reynolds Collection and some related works in the museum's permanent collection. Mary Reynolds was a pivotal, although often unrecognised, figure in the Surrealist movement in Paris from the 1920s to the 1940s. She was also an artist in her own right, creating marvelous bookbindings that were inspired by Surrealism. This issue features a biographical study of Reynolds; a portfolio of her finest bookbindings; and essays on Dada and Surrealist journals, on the artists Leonora Carrington and Hans Bellmer, and on Edward Hoppers Nighthawks in the context of contemporaneous developments in Surrealist art. --- from book's back cover