Surrealism of Angst: Emmy Bridgwater Publisher / Welbeck Publishing legend and superstition

legend and superstition

even become kings by mistake

and a successful colour concept makes all the difference

Tragically killed aged twenty-two in 1966

ridden horses into the sunset

Surrealism of Angst: Emmy Bridgwater Publisher / Welbeck Publishing legend and superstitionThe first monograph devoted to British Surrealist Emmy Bridgwater. Surrealism of Angst explores the extraordinary work of Emmy Bridgwater (19061999), the British Surrealist artist who has long been unjustly overlooked. Born in Birmingham, Bridgwater became associated with the Birmingham Surrealists in 1937 and joined the London Surrealist Group three years later. Her haunting imagerysinister birds, savage cats, scenes of mutilation and violationforms