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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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[1988]
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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
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Tate Archive
Acquisition
Bequeathed to Tate Archive by Eileen Agar, 1992.
Reference
TGA 9222/2/3/3
Cubism Romanticism Kinetic Art Unit One Impressionism Seven and Five Society Orientalism New English Art Club Dada British Surrealism Neo-Romanticism Victorian / Genre Surrealism British War Art Artists’ International Association Constructivism British Impressionism Academic art Bloomsbury Group

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  • Personal papers of and artworks by Eileen Agar TGA 9222 (239)
    • Notebooks and writings TGA 9222/2 (11)
      • Writings by Eileen Agar TGA 9222/2/3 (7)
        • Typewritten lecture entitled ‘Surrealism in England in the 1930s’ given by Andrew Lambirth and Eileen Agar at the Royal College of Art TGA 9222/2/3/3
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