Patricia Allmer

Patricia Allmer is a leading expert on surrealism, as well as horror cinema. She has given several media appearances, most recently in ITV's Perspectives documentary on Magritte (2014). Her publications include Lee Miller: Photography, Surrealism, and Beyond (2016, Manchester UP) and René Magritte: Beyond Painting (Manchester UP, 2016), and many edited books and journal issues such as Intersections: Women Artists/Surrealism/Modernism (Manchester UP, 2016), and European Nightmares: European Horror Cinema Since 1945 (Wallflower/Columbia University Press: 2012). Her illustrated This Is Magritte for Laurence King has been translated into German, Dutch, and Latvian, and was published in August 2016. Patricia curated and edited the catalogue for the award-winning major exhibition Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism (Manchester: 2009), and co-curated and co-edited the catalogue for Taking Shots: The Photography of William S. Burroughs (London: 2014). Her current exhibition and publication project is titled 4 Saints in 3 Acts: A Snapshot of the American Avant-garde in the 1930s (Manchester University Press). Opening in October 2017 at The Photographers' Gallery in London, it focusses on photography's little-known contribution to the key modernist event of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson's 1934 opera Four Saints in Three Acts. It explores representations of the all-African American cast by photographers, including Lee Miller, Carl Van Vechten, and George Platt Lynes.