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Surrealism is better known for its strangeness than the radical politics and revolutionary ambitions of its creators

A large-scale exhibition of surrealism that first opened in Paris in 2024 will have its sole American iteration, “Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100,” at the Philadelphia Art Museum from Nov. 8, 2025, ...

What is Surrealism as a Literary and Artistic Movement That Sought to Shake Reality? —Tracing the Currents of Surrealism (Part 1)—

Kokugakuin University MediaThe note manager reposts recommended articles from the official website! The British Museum, the ...
ELLE

The Second Coming Of Surrealism Is Here

Something strange is happening in fashion. Step inside Schiaparelli in Paris on the Place Vendôme and you will find an exquisitely tailored, black double-breasted blazer that boasts, on closer ...
Forbes

This Exhibit Asks Whether Surrealism Would Have Been Better Without Its Leading Men

A blockbuster at the Fundación MAPFRE gives deserved attention to Surrealist women such as Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning. What if Surrealism had altogether escaped the grip of André Breton?

How did the rupture caused by World War II affect the Surrealists? — Following the currents of Surrealism (Part 2) —

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Wall Street Journal

Celebrating a Century of Surrealism’s Fantastic Visions

The term Surrealism (meaning beyond-realism) was coined by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire in 1917. A revolutionary literary, theatrical and artistic movement, Surrealism—with Sigmund Freud as ...

For her latest Lulu and Georgia collection, Sarah Sherman Samuel experiments with surrealism

Twisted vases, loopy light fixtures, and ruffled mirrors all take on a lifelike quality ...
Hyperallergic

How Surrealism’s Playful Aesthetic Was Deeply Political

Susan Laxton, Surrealism at Play (image courtesy of Duke University Press) In the introduction, Laxton outlines the Surrealists’ hostility toward the utilitarian aspects of progress. Surrealists saw ...
insider.si.edu

Surrealism in Latin America : vivísimo muerto / edited by Dawn Ades, Rita Eder, and Graciela Speranza

This volume evolved from "Vivísimo Muerto: Debates on Surrealism in Latin America," a symposium held at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, 25/26 June 2010. "We who have neither church nor ...