Surrealism

Like the great works that fill its pages, "Surrealism" offers a departure from linear thinking. Beautifully illustrated with many of the movement's iconic artworks (Personal Values by René Magritte, The Child's Brain and The Song of Love by Giorgio de Chirico, The Great Forest by Max Ernst, Dog Barking at the Moon by Joan Miró, The Giantess by Leonora Carrington), this volume accompanies the Centre Pompidou's spectacular exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of André Breton's Manifesto of Surrealism.
Organised both thematically and chronologically, essays by international researchers explore the realms of surrealism through the literary figures who inspired the movement (Lautréamont, Lewis Carroll, Sade) and the poetic themes that informed its imagery (the artist as a medium, dreams, the philosopher's stone, the forest), as well as reviewing the surrealists' political activism. Featuring excerpts from André Breton's original handwritten manuscript and with a multi-directional layout and more than 200 surrealist masterpieces, "Surrealism" is the defining catalogue of the surrealist movement.