Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain

Lee Miller and Surrealism in BritainPublished to accompany the major exhibition Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain at The Hepworth Wakefield (22 June to 7 October 2018), this is the first book to consider the photography of Lee Miller in relation to the British Surrealists and alongside artworks by noted European Surrealists such as Max Ernst and E. L. T Mesens. Lee Miller (1907 1977) attracts enduring fascination, a female pioneer who is often presented as a singular figure. However,

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Bernard Leach original Standard Ware pottery was featured in the 1959 Living Today exhibition and is still being made by Leach Pottery today

and the Pikin Slee series

Selected by Sassen herself from across the last ten years

from sculpture to painting"

The Hepworth Wakefield (Wakefield Permanent Art Collection) Copyright: Bowness

In the spring of 2015

stories of how volcanoes are formed and practised joined-up handwriting

As flowers start to fade

and her organic sculptures have come to exemplify three-dimensional modernist art

The blocks are designed for single stem or small bunches of flowers or plants

The exhibitions at The Hepworth Wakefield and Yorkshire Sculpture Park are introduced here with essays by curators Eleanor Clayton and Dr Helen Pheby