Desmond Morris.

desmond morris
the lives of the surrealists (2018)

The Surrealist movement began in Paris in the 1920s. Its artists aimed to liberate the unconscious mind and explore the poer of dreams, imagination, and the irrational.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The career of Desmond Morris (born 1928) was a remarkable combination of zoology and surrealist art. He obtained his PhD in animal behaviour from the University of Oxford, his subject being the reproductive behaviour of the ten-spined stickleback. He became a noted writer and television performer on zoology in general and ape behaiour in particular. Alongside that he had a career as a surrealist painter, exhibiting his work in 1950 at the London Gallery alongside that of Jean Miro.

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