The History of Surrealism

I believe, AndrBreton said, in the future resolution of the states of dream and reality--in appearance so contradictory--in a sort of absolute reality, or surrlit The Surrealist movement, born in the 1920s out of the ferment of Dada, committed to revolution against bourgeois rationalism, and inspired by Freudian exploration of the unconscious, has reverberated more widely and deeply than perhaps any other art movement in our century. Its automatism, biomorphic shapes, visionary mode, and manipulation of found objects mark the work of artists as different as Ernst, Mir Magritte, and Dali.

Softcover. English. Pelican. 1978. ISBN: 0140216855. 383 pp. Used. Book No: 60855