desmond morris
the lives of the surrealists
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The zoologist Desmond Morris was also a surrealist painter. In this highly entertaining book he gives a vivid account of the lives - sometimes conventional, mostly exotic - of 35 leading surrealist painters working in the 20th century. These include Man Ray, Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, Leonora Carrington and Joan Miro, many of whom Morris knew personally. He delves not only into their work but also their lives - which were marked by drama and controversy. He covers their tastes in food, their unorthodox way of life, and their complicated personal and sexual relationships.
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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.
