Surrealism was one of the most interesting and influential art movements of the twentieth century, a collective adventure begun by a small group of intellectuals in Paris in the early 1920s, among them Max Ernst, René Magritte and Salvador Dalí.
This introduction offers new insights into the complexities of the Surrealist imagination. It documents how the artists met, the relationship of Surrealism to Dada and the influences that formed the movement, particularly the work of Sigmund Freud. The position of the women, as Surrealist subject matter as well as artists in their own right, and Surrealism in the cinema and theatre, are all examined.
