Meret Oppenheim Book order

Meret Oppenheim's collected poems, spanning from 1933 to 1980, showcase her unique voice that transcends Surrealism, featuring vivid imagery and sound. The volume includes 49 poems presented alongside their original German and French texts. Oppenheim was a prominent figure in the 1930s Paris art scene, mingling with influential artists like André Breton and Marcel Duchamp. Her work is celebrated for its timelessness and striking self-assurance, coinciding with a major retrospective of her art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

A selection of artworks by international artists dealing with the food theme and all its implications. This volume accompanies the international traveling exhibition FOOD, that focuses on the preservation of Earth and food choices, as well as the effects of climate change, the poisoning of agricultural products, the food distribution gap, famine, and other related concerns.

One of the most unusual women of the twentieth century, Meret Oppenheim most famously created the legendary Le Déjeuner en Fourrure , her 1936 assemblage of a tea cup and a fur. But Oppenheim was not just a Surrealist mouthful--though she provided the movement with one of its most recognizable symbols. Like her counterparts Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, André Breton and Man Ray, she used found materials freely in her artworks, often to the point of creating a critical alienation of the viewer from an otherwise familiar object. Her greater oeuvre has often been subsumed by the dominance of the ubiquitous fur cup, a situation which this publication aims to remedy, presenting a career-spanning selection of witty drawings, paintings, objects, collages, poems and designs for “applied artworks”--fantastic clothes, jewelry and furniture. Shortly before her death, Oppenheim and editor Thomas Levy developed the idea of realizing some of her applied artworks; those that were made to appear here through photo documentation. Also included are scholarly essays, an exhibition list, a bibliography and a filmography.