'A fittingly exuberant tribute to a singular art movement' - Kirkus Reviews
'A fittingly exuberant tribute to a singular art movement' - Kirkus Reviews
Desmond Morris is one of the last surviving Surrealists. His first solo exhibition was held in 1948 and in 1950 he shared his first London show with Joan Miró. He has since completed over 2,500 Surrealist paintings, and eight books have been published about his work. He has also written several books, one of which,
The Naked Ape
, ranks among the top 100 bestsellers of all time, with over 12 million copies sold. His
The Lives of the Surrealists
was published in 2018 by Thames & Hudson, followed by
Postures: Body Language in Art
(2019) and
The British Surrealists
(2022).
Desmond Morris (1928) is zoöloog, kunstschilder, tv-presentator en filmmaker. Hij was van 1959 tot 1967 hoofd van de afdeling zoogdieren in London Zoo, een functie die hij acht jaar bekleedde. In 1967 publiceerde hij De naakte aap, dat wereldwijd meer d...
