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Surrealism and Its Legacies in Latin America
Annual British Academy Lecture, delivered by Professor Dawn Adès FBA at the British Academy on 27 May 2009.
In this, the 2009 British Academy Annual Lecture, Professor Dawn Ades considers the important by contentious role Surrealism has played in the development of Latin American art, looking at how the history of the reception of surrealist ideas and practices in Latin America has often been distorted by cultural nationalism and become entangled with Magic Realism. Surrealism was nonetheless a potent influence or chosen affiliation for many artists (such as Frida Kahlo and Wifredo Lam) and its legacies can still be detected in the work of contemporary artists from Latin America who now dominate the international scene.
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Lecture
Introduction by Onora O'Neill, President of the Academy (MP3 | 1min | 1.05Mb)
Lecture by Dawn Adès (MP3 | 1hr 2mins | 57.7Mb)
Questions and Answers (MP3 | 10.5mins | 10Mb)
PowerPoint slides
Professor Adès refers to a series of images throughout her lecture. These may be downloaded as a set of PowerPoint slides (PDF | 41Mb)
About the speaker
Professor Dawn Adès was elected a Fellow of the Academy in 1996. She is a trustee of Tate and organised many exhibitions on Surrealism and Salvador Dali from 1978 to 2004. She has published standard works on Mexican muralists, photomontage, women artists, Dada and Surrealism. One of her latest books is Dali's Optical Illusions (2000).