© 2024 Public Radio Tulsa
800 South Tucker Drive
Tulsa, OK 74104
(918) 631-2577

A listener-supported service of The University of Tulsa

classical 88.7 | public radio 89.5

Donate

Play Live Radio

Next Up:

0:00

0:00

0:00 0:00

Available On Air Stations

Museum Confidential

Surrealists at War

Published April 15, 2022 at 12:33 PM CDT

The surrealist and fashion-magazine photographer -- and war correspondent -- Lee Miller, who covered the U.S. Army in the European Theater during WWII.

Museum Confidential: Season 6, Episode 15.

What role can artists and creatives play -- that is, meaningfully and actively -- in times of war? On this episode of MC, we chat with the writer Lesley M.M. Blume about her recent Town & Country article, "The Art of War: How the Surrealists Helped Upend Camouflage and Redefine Modern Battle." In a globe-spanning investigation filled with big art-world names like Gorky and Dalí, her piece makes an excellent argument for truth being stranger than fiction. (You can find the article here.)

Tags

Museum Confidential Jeff Martin Scott Gregory Podcasts Modern Art World War II War and Warfare Military History Art History Creativity Photography Photojournalism

Related Content

Topics

Salvador Dalí's Body Ordered Exhumed In Paternity Suit

Amy Held

"The only thing missing is the mustache," says the woman who claims to be his daughter about her resemblance to the Spanish surrealist painter.
Topics

80-Year-Old Mystery Cracked As Final Missing Piece Of Magritte Painting Found

Amy Held

The fourth and final portion of a painting cut up in 1932 was revealed in Belgium underneath another work by the surrealist artist.
Music

Buñuel's 'Exterminating Angel' Gets An Off-Kilter Screen-To-Stage Adaptation

Naomi Lewin

An unseen force keeps patrons from leaving a dinner party. It's the premise of a 1962 surrealist film — and the basis of British composer Thomas Adès' latest opera.
NPR National News

Decades Later, Salvador Dalí's Decadent Dream Dishes Are Awakened

Tove Danovich

Food and surrealism make bizarre bedfellows in Les Diners de Gala, first published in 1973. Now, you can get a reprint of those recipes and illustrations — and a peek into his legendary banquets.
Slim, Surreal Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti would have been 100 this year, and the Museum of Modern Art is holding an exhibition with works spanning the Swiss artist's long career. David D'Arcy reports for Morning Edition that even now, what the artist's famed sculptures actually express is a matter of debate.
The Surreal Cookbook Of Salvador Dalí

Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi

In the early 1970s surrealist icon Salvador Dalí published a lavish cookbook called Les Dîners de Gala. Decades later, the book is being republished for a new and much wider audience.
Salvador Dalí Artwork Found At North Carolina Thrift Store

The ignored piece of art, priced somewhere between $10 to $50, turned out to be a 1950s woodcut print that was created and signed by Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.

Load More