Eileen Agar, Andrew Lambirth

Typewritten lecture entitled ‘Surrealism in England in the 1930s’ given by Andrew Lambirth and Eileen Agar at the Royal College of Art

[1988]

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Created by: Eileen Agar 1899–1991
Andrew Lambirth
Title: Typewritten lecture entitled ‘Surrealism in England in the 1930s’ given by Andrew Lambirth and Eileen Agar at the Royal College of Art
Date: [1988]
Description: This includes references to 'The autobiography of an embryo' and 'Angel of anarchy'.
Format: Document - writings
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Bequeathed to Tate Archive by Eileen Agar, 1992.
Reference: TGA 9222/2/3/3

Academic art Artists’ International Association Bloomsbury British impressionism British Surrealism British War Art Constructivism Analytical cubism Dada Impressionism Kinetic art Neo-romanticism New English Art Club Orientalism Romanticism Seven and Five Society Surrealism Unit One Victorian / Genre

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Personal papers of and artworks by Eileen Agar TGA 9222 (239)

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Writings by Eileen Agar TGA 9222/2/3 (7)

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Eileen Agar, Andrew Lambirth

Typewritten lecture entitled ‘Surrealism in England in the 1930s’ given by Andrew Lambirth and Eileen Agar at the Royal College of Art

[1988]

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Eileen Agar Drawing of rocks traced from one of Eileen Agar’s photographs of rock formations at Ploumanach, Brittany

Eileen Agar Drawing of rocks traced from one of Eileen Agar’s photographs of rock formations at Ploumanach, Brittany

Eileen Agar Drawing of rocks traced from one of Eileen Agar’s photographs of rock formations at Ploumanach, Brittany

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