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Thames & Hudson reprint with updated endmatter 1997
large 8vo paperback 128 pages F 405 gms
(Order reference 16390). £5.00

“An excellent picture of a movement which…has had a profound effect on the arts of the twentieth century.”― The Times Educational Supplement.

The character of Surrealism had been crystallizing over the previous five years when, in 1924, Andre Breton’s Manifeste du Surrealisme defined the word. As conceived in those early days it was not so much a formal movement as a spiritual orientation, embracing ethics and politics as well as the arts. Recourse to dreams, to the unconscious, to chance factors, to automatism dictated the Surrealist mode. Patrick Waldberg prefaces this collection of key documents with an overview of Surrealism from its beginnings to the present time. 197 illustrations, 8 in colour