101 Surrealists

by Desmond Morris

Genres: Art

224 pages, Hardcover

Published October 29, 2024

About the author

Desmond John Morris (24 January 1928 - 19 April 2026) was an English zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter, as well as a popular author in human sociobiology.
He is known for his 1967 book The Naked Ape, and for his television programmes such as Zoo Time.

After the death of his wife in 2018 he lived with his son and family in Ireland.[ Morris died in Naas, County Kildare, on 19 April 2026, at the age of 98.

abridged from Wikipedia

Reviews

[Liz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very informative as an introduction. I only wish images of the artists’ work would have been included. For the new-to-me artists, I proceeded to “google” the artwork. The extra legwork helped me to solidify the newly acquired knowledge of said artists. Perhaps that was author’s intention all along.

[Mae · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great primer to a plethora of surrealist artists, whom a lot were unfamiliar to me before. I would have preferred if more attention was paid to describing each artist's artistic practice and maybe a list of their most well-known works (only a handful got specific works mentioned). The book seems very intent on telling you when/to whom every artist was married, divorced, remarried....and for how long they were officially part of the surrealist group before Breton expelled them, lol.