Published May 2010
* Essential introduction to the longest lasting avant-garde movement of the twentieth century
* Includes artists renowned for their contribution to the movement, such as Salvador Dalí, Maz Ernst and René Magritte
* Combines an authoritative survey essay and extensive colour plates
* Edited by Mary Ann Caws, a renowned scholar, associate and translator of the Surrealists
* Shows Surrealism’s continued influence on contemporary art, film and photography
About the author(s)
Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, English and French at the City University of New York. Her numerous publications include extensive writings on surrealist and modernist art and literature, and translations of major writers and poets, including André Breton, Stéphane Mallarmé and Tristan Tzara. Her books include Robert Motherwell: What Art Holds (1995); The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter (1997) and Picasso's Weeping Woman: The Life and Art of Dora Maar (2000). She has edited Joseph Cornell's Theatre of the Mind: Selected Diaries, Letters and Files (2000); Manifesto: A Century of Isms (2000); and Surrealist Love Poems (2002).