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Press Release The artists, writers and poets associated with Surrealism placed persistent emphasis on the power of the imagination to transform the everyday. Beginning in the early 1930s, the production of elliptically erotic, sexually-charged objects became increasingly central to their concerns. This exhibition, drawn from the Museum’s collection, includes a number of Surrealism’s most celebrated objects and sculptures, ranging from Salvador Dalí’s bread-and-inkwell-crowned Retrospective Bust of a Woman (1933) to Alberto Giacometti’s enigmatic Hands Holding the Void (Invisible Object) (1934 … (read more)

Press Release

The artists, writers and poets associated with Surrealism placed persistent emphasis on the power of the imagination to transform the everyday. Beginning in the early 1930s, the production of elliptically erotic, sexually-charged objects became increasingly central to their concerns. This exhibition, drawn from the Museum’s collection, includes a number of Surrealism’s most celebrated objects and sculptures, ranging from Salvador Dalí’s bread-and-inkwell-crowned Retrospective Bust of a Woman (1933) to Alberto Giacometti’s enigmatic Hands Holding the Void (Invisible Object) (1934) to Meret Oppenheim’s notorious fur-lined teacup (1936).

Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art

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