The Savage Eye

David Lomas was until 2018 Professor of Art History at the University of Manchester. From 2002 until 2007, he was co-director of the AHRB Research Centre for Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies. Among his many publications on Surrealism, the book Simulating the Marvellous: Surrealism, Psychology, Postmodernism (2013) explores Surrealism’s links to late nineteenth-century art, literature and science. Emil Leth Meilvang holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Oslo. He was co-curator of the exhibition The Savage Eye organised at MUNCH in 2022. Allison Morehead is Associate Professor of Art History and Cultural Studies at Queen’s University, Canada. Morehead has written a number of articles on Edvard Munch and leads the international and interdisciplinary research group ‘Edvard Munch, Modernism, and Medicine’. Gavin Parkinson is Professor of European Modernism at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. He has published numerous essays and articles, mainly on Surrealism. His book Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism: Art History, ‘Sensibility’ and War in the 1960s is forthcoming from Bloomsbury. Lars Toft-Eriksen is Senior Curator at MUNCH. He was curator of the exhibition The Savage Eye organised at MUNCH in 2022. Toft-Eriksen specialises in Scandinavian Surrealism and holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Oslo. Dr Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is the author of The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis (Routledge 2011) and Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis (Columbia 2018).