Of all the Parisian Surrealists, Salvador Dal铆 was by far the most frequent visitor to Manhattan in the 1930s.听 He always attended his numerous shows at Julien Levy gallery in midtown, and stayed for a period of time to stir up publicity.听 Collaborating with Levy, Dali staged unique performative events, from shop window designs to an entire pavilion at the NY World鈥檚 Fair of 1939.听 By the time of the Museum of Modern Art鈥檚 1936 exhibition, Dali was widely hailed as the face of Surrealism.听 Two very different New York artists who felt his influence in this decade will be discussed: Joseph Cornell and Jackson Pollock.
Lewis Kachur听is Professor of Art History at Kean University of New Jersey. He received his doctorate from Columbia University, and is a specialist in twentieth century and contemporary European and American art. A pioneer in the field of exhibition history, Kachur authored听Displaying the Marvelous: Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dal铆 and Surrealist Exhibition Installations听(MIT Press, 2001). His museum catalog essays include听鈥淧icasso et les musiques- populaires et folklorique- du cubisme,鈥 in Les Musiques de Picasso, Mus茅e de la musique, Paris, 2020, pp. 84-91.听 鈥淭he ABCs of New York Surrealism in the 1930s: Austin, Barr, Cornell鈥︹ in the exhibition catalogue, Surrealism in American Art, Marseilles museums, France, 2021.
Organised by Dr Lucy Bradnock and Professor Gavin Parkinson (The 91自拍) as part of the
