PUBLICATIONS

Books

(2023) Mary Wykeham: Surrealist out of the Shadows (Lund Humphries, London), ISBN 9781848225572, 192 pp. 1-192
(2020) Desmond Morris Late Work Analytical Catalogue Raisonné 2012-2020 (Sansom & Co., Bristol), Hardback [ISBN 978-1-911408-70-3], 288 pp. 1-288
(2020) Desmond Morris Late Work Analytical Catalogue Raisonné 2012-2020 (Sansom & Co., Bristol), Paperback [ISBN 978-1-911408-71-0], 288 pp. 1-288
(2015) Decoding Magritte (Sansom & Co., Bristol) [ISBN 9781906593957], 280 pp. 1–280
(2014) Sheila Legge Phantom of Surrealism (Dark Windows Press, Rhos-on-Sea) [ISBN 978-1909769090], 114 pp. 1–114
(2012) Desmond Morris Analytical Catalogue Raisonné 2000-2012 (Sansom & Company, Bristol) [ISBN Standard edition 978-1-906593-44-5, Collector’s edition 978-1-906593-97-1], 312 pp. 1-312
(2012) Desmond Morris Pintura (Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Instituto Universitário, Lisbon), 8 pp. not paginated
(2009) British Surrealism in Context. A Collector’s Eye, edited by Levy, S., Pirsig-Marshall, T (Leeds Museums and Galleries), [ISBN 978-0-901981-82-0], 223 pp. 1-223
(2008) Dina Lenkovic (Vlastito Izdanje, Zagreb) [ISBN 978-953-55071-09], 160pp. 1-160
(2008) Lines of Thought. The Drawings of Desmond Morris (Kettlestone Press, Norfolk) [ISBN 978-0-9560153-0-3], 200 pp. 1-200
(2003) The Scandalous Eye: The Surrealism of Conroy Maddox (Liverpool University Press) [ISBN 0-85323-559-7], 292 pp.1-292
(2002) Desmond Morris (translation of Desmond Morris: Naked Surrealism, with a foreword by Willy Van den Bussche) (Petraco-Pandora, Antwerp/Museum Voor Moderne Kunst, Ostend) [ISBN 90-5325-201-0], 87 pp. 11-464
(2001) Desmond Morris: Analytical Catalogue Raisonné 1944-2000 (Petraco-Pandora, Antwerp) [ISBN 90-5325-162-6], 464 pp. 1-464
(2001) Conroy Maddox: A Surrealist Odyssey (Belgrave Gallery Publishing, London) [ISBN 0-906647-06-1], 16 pp.1-16
(2000) Surrealism (Vade Mecum, Hereford) [ISBN 0-7526-0127-X], 20 pp.1-20
(1999) Desmond Morris: Naked Surrealism (Petraco-Pandora, Antwerp) [ISBN 90-5325-157-X], 240pp. 1-240, augmented reedition in Belgium of Desmond Morris: 50 Years of Surrealism
(1997) Desmond Morris: 50 Years of Surrealism (Barrie and Jenkins, Ebury Press, London) [ISBN 0-7126-7298-2], 224pp. 1-224<
(1997) Desmond Morris: A Surrealist World (Buxton Museum & Art Gallery) [ISBN 0-906753-19-8], 7 pp. 1-7
(1997) (editor) Surrealism: Surrealist Visuality (New York University Press) [Hardback ISBN 0-8147-5128-X, Paperback ISBN 0-8147-5127-X], 173 pp. 1-173
(1996,1997) Surrealism: Surrealist Visuality (Keele University Press) [Hardback 1996 ISBN 1-85331-170-7, Paperback 1997 ISBN 1-85331-193-6], 173 pp. 1-173
(1996) Desmond Morris: 50 Years of Surrealism(Stoke City Museum and Art Gallery) [ISBN 1-874414-12-2], 16 pp. 1-16
(1995) (editor) Conroy Maddox: Surreal Enigmas (Keele University Press) [ISBN 185331-1537], 190 pp. 1-190
(1994, 2002 a) Understanding French Accounts (Pitman, London, Pearson Educational, London) [ISBN 0-273-60307-8], 151pp. 1-151
(1994, 2002 b) (series editor) Donaghy, P. & Laidler, J., Understanding Spanish Accounts (London, Pitman, Pearson Educational, London) [ISBN 0 273 60308 6]
(1994, 2002 c) (series editor) Höffgen, A. & Duncalf-Edelsbacher, J., Understanding German Accounts (London, Pitman, Pearson Educational, London) [ISBN 0 273 60309 4]

Chapters in books

(2014) Attività del Gruppo Surrealista in Gran Bretagna 1936-2008 in A. SCHWARZ (Ed), Il Surrealismo, ieri e oggi . Storia, protagonisti, filosofia, politica (Skira Rizzoli, New York, 2012) [ISBN 978-88-572-1634-8], 46 pp. 213-258

(2009) Toni del Renzio: Surrealist Champion or Antagonist? in S. LEVY & T. PIRSIG-MARSHALL, T. (Eds), British Surrealism in Context. A Collector’s Eye (Leeds Museums and Galleries, 2009), [ISBN 978-0-901981-82-0], 9 pp. 59-67

(2007) Paul Nougé constructing Absence in P. ALLMER & H. VAN GELDER (Eds), Collective Invention: Belgian Surrealism Reconsidered (LGC-Series, Leuven University Press, 2007) [ISBN 978-90-5867-592-7], 13pp. 70-82

(2004) Menace. Surrealist Interference of Space in T.MICAL (Ed) Surrealism and Architecture (Routledge, London, 2004)[ISBN 041532520X], 21 pp. 60-80

(2002) Maddox, the Melvilles and Morris: Birmingham Surrealists in T. SIDEY (Ed) Surrealism in Birmingham 1935-1954 (Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, 2002) [ISBN 0-7093-0235-5], 14 pp. 23-36

(2000) André Breton and the Belgian Connection in R. FOTIADE (Ed) André Breton - The Power of Language (Elm Bank Publications, Exeter, 2000) [ISBN 1-902454-06-5], 13 pp.125-137

(1996 a) René Magritte: Representational Iconoclasm in S. LEVY (Ed) Surrealist Visuality(Keele University Press, 1996) [ISBN 1-85331-170-7], 15 pp. 15-29

(1996 b) Introduction in S. LEVY (Ed) Surrealism: Surrealist Visuality (Keele University Press, 1996) [ISBN 1-85331-170-7], 4 pp. 7-10

(1995 a) Dangerous Cities in S. LEVY (Ed) Conroy Maddox: Surreal Enigmas(Keele University Press, 1995) [ISBN 1-85331-153-7], 2 pp. 181-2

(1995 b) In pursuit of Enigma: 1935-1940 in S. LEVY (Ed) Conroy Maddox: Surreal Enigmas (Keele University Press, 1995) [ISBN 1-85331-153-7], 6 pp. 7-12

Articles

Peer Reviewed Journals

(2009) Toni del Renzio, Infosurr. Le surréalisme et ses alentours [ISSN 1273-08822008]

(2007) Toni del Renzio in extremis: Alter Ego and Doppelganger’, The Papers of Surrealism [ISSN 1750-1954], Issue 6, 13 pp. 1-13

(2005) Magritte at the Edge of Codes, Image & Narrative. Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative [ISSN 1780-678X], Issue 13, The Forgotten Surrealists: Belgian Surrealism Since 1924 (November 2005), University of Leuven

(2005) The del Renzio Affair: A leadership struggle in wartime surrealism, The Papers of Surrealism [ISSN 1750-1954], Issue 3, pp. 1-34, AHRC Research Centre for Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies

(2001) Jean-Martin Charcot, une source du surréalisme au dix-neuvième siècle, Pleine Marge [ISSN 0295-1630], No. 34, pp. 175-191

(1997) Surrealism, the Scientist and Sex, Art Review [ISSN 9-770004-409024], Vol. XLIX, pp 64-5

(1976) KELLY, B., LEVY, S. Music: An Accessory to the Crime. Paul Nougé and Surrealist Music, Aura [ISSN 0968-1736], pp. 97-116

(1995) An Unholy Mission, Modern Painters [ISSN 0953-6698], Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 61-63

(1994) KELLY, B., LEVY, S. E.L.T. Mesens Renouncement of Music, French Studies Bulletin [ISSN 0262-2750], No. 52, pp. 13-15

(1994) Paul Nougé and Surreal Invention, New Comparison [ISSN 0950-5814], No. 17, pp. 120-134

(1993 a) Magritte, Mesens and Dada, Aura [ISSN 0968-1736], No. 1, pp. 31-41

(1993 b) Magritte: The Uncanny and the Image, French Studies Bulletin [ISSN 0262-2750], No. 46, pp. 15-17

(1992 a) Magritte and Words, Journal of European Studies [ISSN 0047-2441], Vol. 22, Part 4, No. 88, pp. 313-321

(1992 b) Magritte and the Surrealist Image, Apollo [ISSN 0003-6536], Vol. CXXXVI, No. 366, pp 117-119

(1990) Foucault on Magritte on Resemblance, Modern Language Review [ISSN 0026-7937], Vol. 85, No.1, pp. 50-56

(1987) Some Views on Metaphor: From Classical Rhetoric to Robbe-Grillet, The Linguist [ISSN 0268-5965], Vol. XXVI, No. 2, pp. 66-68

(1986) Linguistic Principles and Iconic Communication, Journal of Literary Semantics [ISSN 0341-7638], Vol. XV, No. 3, pp. 216-226

(1985) From Language Loss to the Poetic Function, The Linguist [ISSN 0268-5965], Vol. XXIV, No. 1, pp. 45-48

(1981) René Magritte and Window Display, Artscribe International [ISSN 0309-2151], No. 28, pp. 24-28

Other Articles

(2009) Seeing Blindness in Open Windows an Exhibition of Surrealist Artworks by Patrick Hourihan (Gallery West-Eleven, London, 6-12 July 2009), 2 pp. 2-3

(2008) Conroy Maddox (1912-2005)’ in 20th British Art (Christie’s, London, 16 July 2008) [ISSN 02405506], 1 p. 58

(2008) Desmond Morris in 20th British Art (Sotheby’s, London, 18 March 2008) [ISSN], 1 p. 106

(2008) Conroy Maddox in 20th British Art (Sotheby’s, London, 18 March 2008) [ISSN], 1 p. 111

(2007) Conroy Maddox (1912-2005) The Stillness of the Day in 20th British Art (Christie’s, London, 27 June 2007) [ISSN 02405506], 1 p. 50

(2007 ON FILE) Leonora Carrington: Mystic Rebel, The Independent [ISSN 095-194-67]

(2007) Toni del Renzio Surrealist Artist, Yorkshire Post [ISSN 0963-1496], 20 January 2007, p. ?, Yorkshire Today: Article

(2007) Toni del Renzio Enfant Terrible of English Surrealism, The Independent [ISSN 095-194-67], No. 6,315, 12 January 2007, p. 41, Independant: Article

(2006) Conroy Maddox (1912-2005) The Engaged Couple’ in 20th Century British Art (Bonham’s, London, 28 November 2006) [ISSN ?], 2 pp. 8-9

(2006) Conroy Maddox (1912-2005) The Stillness of the Day in The Poetry of Crisis. The Peter Nahum Collection of British Surrealist and Avant-Garde Art 1930-1951 (Christie’s, London, 15 November 2006) [ISSN 02405506], 1 p. 42

(2006) Desmond Morris (B. 1928) Comparative Anatomy in The Poetry of Crisis. The Peter Nahum Collection of British Surrealist and Avant-Garde Art 1930-1951 (Christie’s, London, 15 November 2006) [ISSN 02405506], 1 p. 58

(2006) Desmond Morris (B. 1928) Cat VI (Two Cats) in The Poetry of Crisis. The Peter Nahum Collection of British Surrealist and Avant-Garde Art 1930-1951 (Christie’s, London, 15 November 2006) [ISSN 02405506], 1 p. 58

(2006) Desmond Morris (B. 1928) Entry to a Landcape in The Poetry of Crisis. The Peter Nahum Collection of British Surrealist and Avant-Garde Art 1930-1951 (Christie’s, London, 15 November 2006) [ISSN 02405506], 1 p. 59

(2005) Magician Maddox Conjured up Surreal, The Birmingham Post [ISSN ], No. 45,081, 8 February 2005, p. 9

(2005) Conroy Maddox, The Times [ISSN 1742-499], No. 68286, 17 January 2005, p. 50

(1993) Marcel Mariën, The Independent [ISSN 095-194-67], No. 2170, p. 45

(1992) This is a Magritte, The Times Higher Education Supplement [ISSN 0049-3929], No. 1028, p. 18

(1984) Waterloo Script and the French Conventions of letter-writing, University College Dublin Computer Centre Newsletter, Vol. 11, No. 1 (including program), pp. 19-20

Articles in Edited Collections

(2009) Maddox, Conroy Ronald (1912-2005), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition (Oxford University Press, January 2009) [ISBN 978-0-19-861411-1]

(2006 IN PRESS) The Arena in Context, Catalogue of Dada and Surrealist Works at Tate, http://www.tate.org.uk, AHRC Research Centre for Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies

(2001) KELLY, B., LEVY, S. Mesens, Edouard Léon Théodore in S. SADIE (Ed) The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, Vol. 16, http://www.grovemusic.com (Macmillan, London) [ISBN 0333919513], p. 479;

(1998a) Le surréalisme de Desmond Morris, in E. BURSSENS (Ed) Scope 99  (Editions Labor, Brussels, Editions Martial, Paris) [ISBN 90-5349-268-2], p. 408

(1998b) Het Surrealisme van Desmond Morris, in E. BURSSENS (Ed) Snoecks 99 (Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, Ghent) [ISBN 90-5349-270-4], p. 454

(1995a) Antigone: Play by Jean Anouilh, 1944 in L. HENDERSON (Ed) Reference Guide to World Literature (St James Press, Detroit) [ISBN 1-5586-2195-4], pp. 43-4

(1995b) The Outsider (L’Etranger): Novel by Albert Camus, 1942 in L. HENDERSON (Ed) Reference Guide to World Literature (St James Press, Detroit) [ISBN 1-5586-2195-4], pp. 225-6

(1995c) The Fall (La Chute): Novel by Albert Camus, 1956 in L. HENDERSON (Ed) Reference Guide to World Literature (St James Press, Detroit) [ISBN 1-5586-2195-4], p. 225

Reviews of single academic books or articles

(2008) ‘From Art Nouveau to Surrealism. Belgian Modernity in the Making. Ed. by Nathalie Aubert, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, and Patrick McGuiness. London: Legenda. 2007. x+207 pp. £45. ISBN 978-1-904350-64-4.’ Modern Language Review [ISSN 0953-6698], Vol. 103, No. 4, October 2008, 2pp. 1130-1131

Belgian Memories. Edited by Catherine Labio. (Yale French Studies 102). New Haven-London, Yale University Press, 2002, French Studies [ISSN 0016-1128], Vol. 58, No.2, April 2004, 2 pp. 293-294

‘Buot, F. Tristan Tzara. L’homme qui inventa la révolution Dada’, Modern and Contemporary France [ISSN 0963-9489], Vol. 12, No.1, 2004, 1 p. 111

Pulp Surrealism: Insolent Popular Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Paris by Robin Walz. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2000’, French Studies [ISSN 0016-1128], Vol. 56, No. 3, July 2002, 1 p. 426

‘André Breton, Communicating Vessels, translated by Mary Anne Caws and Geoffrey T. Harris with notes and introduction by Mary Anne Caws’, Modern and Contemporary France [ISSN 0963-9489], Vol. 6, No. 3, 1998, 2 pp. 389-390

‘André Breton, Les Pas perdus, The Lost Steps, translated by Mark Polizzotti’, Modern and Contemporary France [ISSN 0963-9489], Vol. 5, No. 4, November 1997, 2pp. 494-495

‘Max Jacob/Léon David: Chroniques d'art 1898-1900’, Modern Language Review [ISSN 0953-6698], Vol. 85, No. 3, October 1990, 2 pp. 738-739

‘Roger Cardinal: Nadja’, Modern Language Review [ISSN 0953-6698], Vol. 85, No.2, July 1990, 2 pp. 458-459

‘Contrariwise: Surrealism in Britain’, Artscribe International [ISSN 0309-2151], No. 63, May 1987, 1 p. 73

‘Four Voices: Riosin O'Hagan’, Circa [ISSN 0263-9475], May/June 1983, 2 pp. 19-20

‘David Nash’, Artscribe International [ISSN 0309-2151], No. 40, April 1983, 1p. 57

Citations of Publications by Silvano Levy

‘Foucault on Magritte on Resemblance’, The Modern Language Review (1990)
cited: Patricia Allmer, ‘Magritte et la photographie’, Papers of Surrealism, 4 (winter 2005)

Understanding French Accounts (1994)
cited: The British Accounting Review, Vol. 27, no. 2 (June 1995), p. 158-9

Desmond Morris.  50 Years of Surrealism (1997)
cited: The Sunday Telegraph (26 October 1997), p. 3
Art Monthly (December 1997), p. 49
Times Literary Supplement (25 September 1998)
J. Hutton Choice. Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, Humanities, Art & Architecture 36-0748, Association of College and research libraries, USA, Vol. 36, No.2 (October 1998), pp. 304-5

Conroy Maddox. Surreal Enigmas (1995)
cited: Infosurr, No. 6 (September 1996), p. 11
Andrew Wilson, ‘The unconscious is always right’, Sluice Gates of the Mind (Leeds Museums and Galleries, 1998)
Fiona Bradley, Surrealism(Tate Gallery, London, 1997), p. 76
Michel Remy, Surrealismin Britain (Ashgate, Aldershot, 1999)

Surrealism: Surrealist Visuality (1996, 1997)
cited: The Art Book, Vol. 4, No. 1 (January 1997), p. 60
Gazette des Beaux-Arts, No. 1545 (October 1997), p. 22
The Times Literary Supplement, No 4941 (12 December 1997), p. 31

‘René Magritte and Window Display’, Artscribe International (1981)
cited: French Studies, Vol. XLI, No. 3 (July 1987), p.290
The Independent (5 May 1998), p. 17

‘An Unholy Mission’, Modern Painters (1995)
cited: Bibliography of the History of Art, Santa Monica, Getty Trust (1995), p. 432

Desmond Morris. Analytical Catalogue Raisonné (2001)
cited: Michael Robinson, Surrealism, London, Flame Tree Publishing, 2005, p. 296
David Buckman, Artists in Britain Since 1945, Volume 2 (Art Dictionaries Ltd, Bristol, 2006), p. 1134

The Scandalous Eye. The Surrealism of Conroy Maddox (2003)
cited: Infosurr Le surréalisme et ses alentours, Paris, No.54 (November-December 2003), p. 15
Peter Davies, ‘Conroy Maddox’, The Independent (15 January 2005), p. 56
Tim Hilton, ‘Conroy Maddox’, The Guardian (19 January 2005), p. 27
Robert Short (Anon), ‘Conroy Maddox’, The Daily Telegraph (21 January 2005), p. 31
Caroline McClatchey (Anon), ‘Sociable painter was last of the great surrealists’, Hampstead & HighgateExpress (21 January 2005), p. 7
Gary Bills-Geddes, ‘Town has place in history of art’, Ledbury Reporter (21 January 2005), p. 1
Philippa May, ‘Town mourns death of its ‘national treasure’ ’, The Hereford Times (27 January 2005), p. 22
Gary Bills-Geddes, ‘Surrealist artist “kept the flame” ’, Malvern Gazette (21 January 2005), p. 9
Paul Bond,‘Veteran British surrealist dies’, World Socialist Web Site. The International Committee of the Fourth International (2 February 2005), article
Michael Mann, ‘ “Dangerous” artist is remembered’, Camden New Journal, 28 January 2005, article
Sarah, Druet, ‘Les ciseaux sanglants : Interview avec Conroy Maddox’, Litur Editions (2001), article
David Buckman, Artists in Britain Since 1945, Volume 2 (Art Dictionaries Ltd, Bristol, 2006), p. 1042

Citations of Silvano Levy as researcher

cited: Colin Gleadell, ‘Sale of the Week’, The Daily Telegraph (12 March 2001), p. 18
John Windsor, ‘It’s all true, surreally’, The Independent (15 April 1995), p. 29


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