Detail of Max Ernst, "Au rendez-vous des amis" (1922), featuring, left to right: Louis Aragon, André Breton, Giorgio de Chirico, and Gala Dalí (then Éluard), at ...

Between the rise of artificial intelligence and the proliferation of “fake news,” living in the 21 st-century can sometimes feel a bit surreal. That is why there is perhaps no better time to revisit ...

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, ...

Explore how Jibanananda Das transformed modern Bengali poetry through surrealist imagery, existential loneliness, dreams, memory and nature.

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 ...

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?

Article printed in the journal Arsenal: Surrealist Subversion no.3, 1976, including The Manifesto of the Arab Surrealist Movement, 1975. Submitted by History is Mad… on July 22, 2009 The current ...

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 ...

While I was reading Magritte: A Life, I started to notice apples everywhere. I’d be on the train, learning about The Son of Man—the 1964 portrait of a bowler-hatted man whose face is masked by a ...