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Eileen Agar, the accidental Surrealist
The Independent on Sunday; Oct 19, 2008; ; 700+ Words ...Centrepiece When the British Surrealist Eileen Agar asked art historian Andrew Lambirth...up there for years," he says. "Eileen was moving to a flat, and she told...life story as well as in her art." Eileen Agar: An Eye for Collage Opens on...
The Muse Unmasked: Eileen Agar's Objective Correlatives
Femspec; Jan 1, 2006; ; 700+ Words ...provoked its own separate inspiration. (Agar, Life 141) During the 1930s the...and pivotal artistic practice for Eileen Agar. As she later remarked: "Trawling...favorite working method of mine" (Agar, Life 94). This article will focus...
MIRO MIRO ON THE WALL.. EILEEN AGAR m The Redfern Gallery, W1
Evening Standard - London; Jun 6, 2000; ; 536 Words Mir Mir on the wall... Eileen Agar's Woman Bearing Fruit, 1962 SURREALISM in Britain arrived late...of Dal, Ernst and Picasso were on show. Also exhibiting was Eileen Agar, the only woman. Born in 1899, to a Scottish father and American...
The Independent Archive: Womb magic from an artist who teases 28 September 1988 Diana Hinds meets Eileen Agar, one of the last surviving painters of the English Surrealist circle
The Independent - London; Sep 28, 1998; 700+ Words ...a billiard cue and a jewelled dagger on his belt. Eileen Agar also made her name at the exhibition. Now 88, she is...human, and represents a miraculous, imaginative force. Eileen Agar admits that she was one of the very few women among the...
Agar, Eileen
A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art; ; 377 Words Agar, Eileen (1899–1991). British painter, born in Buenos Aires, the daughter of a British businessman who made a fortune there...
A surreal Agar saga
The Sunday Herald; Dec 5, 1999; ; 700+ Words ...exhibition, reports MOIRA JEFFREY WHEN Eileen Agar was growing up in Buenos Aires at...How wrong can you get? Instead, Agar became one of the leading lights of...extraordinary act of rebellion which led Agar, on the family's return to London...
POLICE CHIEF JOHN J. AGAR, 60
The Record (Bergen County, NJ); May 25, 1991; ; 448 Words ...1991 POLICE CHIEF JOHN J. AGAR, 60 By Michael O. Allen...One Star Biographical: JOHN AGAR SOUTH HACKENSACK -- If you cut John J. Agar, township police chief for...Agar is survived by his wife, Eileen; two sons, David and Eugene...
Enumerating chromogenic agar plates using an automated colony counter.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN Life Science)
Laboratory Equipment; Mar 1, 2007; ; 700+ Words ...substrates produce characteristic colors on agar plates when cleaved by organism-specific...commercially available and laboratory-prepared agar plates. [FIGURES 1-2 OMITTED] Automated...counting colonies by color on chromogenic agar plates. MATERIALS AND METHODS Media and...
The English patent
The Scotsman; Dec 17, 1999; ; 700+ Words ...Picasso or Mir. It is refreshing, then, to find in Eileen Agar, the subject of a major retrospective at the Scottish...responsibility that accompanies this mantle. But if Eileen Agar was well-connected, she was not just an art groupie...
Paper ... scissors ... Surrealism. How one woman joined the club
The Independent on Sunday; Nov 9, 2008; ; 700+ Words ...dominated art movement Visual Art Eileen Agar: An Eye for Collage Pallant House...Over the new Pallant House show, Eileen Agar: An Eye for Collage, hangs...things might have been had the young Eileen Agar not fallen among thieves. Pallant...
Self-possessed stylist at play
The Sunday Telegraph London; Dec 26, 2004; ; 700+ Words Eileen Agar The Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize Art Eileen Agar (1899-1991) was predestined to become a Surrealist. She was born in Argentina to an ex-pat family of means who sent her back to England at the age of 12 for her schooling...
VISUAL ART: PICK OF THE GALLERIES - Surreal dreamworlds and genetic codes
The Independent - London; Jan 9, 2000; ; 700+ Words ...Edinburgh (0131 624 6200) to 26 March Eileen Agar Scottish National Gallery of Modern...retrospective of the British Surrealist Eileen Agar. The shows complement each...show, I've been unduly harsh on Eileen Agar's life's work. A look through...
Independent spirit
The Spectator; Oct 25, 2008; ; 700+ Words ...distinguished surrealist Eileen Agar, and I jumped at the suggestion...of English surrealists. Eileen was tiny but immensely...have tried to make in the Agar exhibition I have been...until 15 March 2009). Eileen's work comes out of the...
Archive to shed light on tangled affairs of artful lovers
The Independent - London; Apr 19, 2001; ; 700+ Words ...in a letter in 1938 to his fellow artist Eileen Agar, both of whom were married, wrote: "Eileen, what have I done for you to treat me like...of artists' photographs - by John Piper, Eileen Agar and Paul Nash." The Research Centre...
Business `recluse' gives pounds 2.2m to build Tate art library
The Independent - London; Apr 19, 2001; ; 700+ Words ...in a letter in 1938 to his fellow artist Eileen Agar, both of whom were married, wrote: "Eileen, what have I done for you to treat me like...of artists' photographs - by John Piper, Eileen Agar and Paul Nash." The Research Centre...
So Exotic So Homemade.(So Exotic, so Homemade: Surrealism, Englishness and Documentary Photography)(Book review)
Art Monthly; May 1, 2009; ; 700+ Words ...meet and talk to key figures such as Eileen Agar, Bill Brandt, Roland Penrose and...sometimes literally abroad: Brittany for Eileen Agar, the Balkans for Roland Penrose...practice (the 1936 photographs by Eileen Agar investigated in detail by Walker...
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
Artforum; May 1, 2005; ; 700+ Words ...a suite of photographs and collages made by Eileen Agar on the Brittany coast in 1936 and a pair of...painting shows the English Channel from one side, Agar's photographs from the other; Nash was Agar's lover at the time and the person who introduced...
Beyond the fringe
The Spectator; Jun 3, 2006; ; 700+ Words ...20 years ago when I was called in to assist the artist Eileen Agar (1899- 1991) with the writing of her memoirs. With...history that for me had previously existed only in books. Eileen Agar is represented in this exhibition by two works, both...
Artistic sustenance
The Spectator; Jan 1, 2005; ; 700+ Words ...works on paper by the distinguished English Surrealist Eileen Agar (1899-1991), and Paper Relief Works by Janet Boulton. I am impossibly biased in favour of Eileen Agar because I knew her well in the last years of her life...
Beyond the ordinaire
The Spectator; Apr 14, 2007; ; 700+ Words ...by Arp and Henry Moore, Eileen Agar's glorious 'Ceremonial...have a soft spot for the Agars in particular. Twenty years ago I helped Eileen to write her autobiography...including another of Agar's hats. There's also...
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