From the early 1920s on, French surrealists showed an elective sensibility toward Northwest Coastal art.  The great moment of the true discover of this art in Europe, however, is the World War II European exile in New York.  Then Clause Lévi-Strauss, André Breton and their friends developed in the course of various cultural activities an emotional rather than aesthetic attitude toward it, which expressed the surrealists' poetic vision of the world.

Hosted by: Department of Anthropology, Spurlock Museum

In conjunction with: Art History Program, Department of French, Krannert Art Museum, Lorado Taft Lectureship on Art Fund/College of Fine and Applied Arts, Native American House, Spurlock Museum Board, Spurlock Museum Guild.