Examining Surrealist photographs, objects, exhibitions, activities, and writings, this book includes essays that portray the French capital as a city in the process of metamorphosis - in a kind of twilight state.

The Life and Art of Leonor Fini.

The most comprehensive and up-to-date survey available about women Surrealists features an outstanding array of artists from the early twentieth century to modern times.

The latest collection of paintings from Todd Schorr unites classical technique with pop culture subject matter.

Presents a study of Etant donnes and Duchamp. This book features 116 black-and-white polaroids taken by the artist and 35 pages of his handwritten notes and sketches.

Accompanies a Hayward exhibition that draws its inspiration and much of its material from the magazine Documents . This book aims to re-invest some masterpieces with the vitality of the cultural and intellectual climate in Paris in the late 1920s. It reflects the confrontations between art, archaeology, ethnography, film and popular culture.

What does it mean to write This is not a pipe across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? By exploring the nuances and ambiguities of Magritte's visual critique of language, the author finds the painter less removed than previously thought from the pioneers of modern abstraction.

Zurich, Berlin, Hanover, Cologne, New York, Paris.

A precursor to Surrealism, the Dada movement stressed the absurd and unpredictable, the illogical and chaotic, lashing out against traditional aesthetics and upending artistic conventions. Emerging from the artistic milieu of Zurich during World War I, it signaled a re-evaluation of art's place in the shadow of industrialized war.

The Collections of the Museum of Modern Art.

Since its public debut, Marcel Duchamp's (1887-1968) masterpiece Etant donnes has been recognized as one of the most important and enigmatic works of the 20th century. This illustrated book examines the critical and artistic reception of Etant donnes.

Part of a series which introduces key artists and movements in art history, this book deals with the surrealist paintings. Each title in the series contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative black and white illustrations.

Takes the reader on a journey through one of the most fascinating and influential art movements of the twentieth century. Exploring works from some of the modern era's greatest masters including Dali, Ernts, Miro and Magritte, this book offers insight into the complexities of the Surrealist imagination.

Presents a comprehensive work on Surrealism.

The Unspeakable Confessions of Salvador Dali. Contains the frank and uncensored confessions of Salvador Dali, from his childhood and first adolescent sexual experiences to his emergence as a painter, Surrealist, and eventually the most famous - and possibly richest - artist of modern times.

Explores the range of media employed by both Dada and Surrealism, whilst at the same time establishing the aesthetic differences between the movements. This book also examines the Dadaist obsession with the body-as-mechanism in relation to the Surrealists' return to the fetishized/eroticized body.

This volume brings together around 200 of Giger's paintings, sketches and photographs, as well as autobiographical passages and the artist's personal reflections on his work.

Salvador Dali worked in two distinct modes - a highly detailed naturalism and a more avant-garde, cubist-derived style that owed much to Picasso. This book offers material about Dali's formative years as a young artist in Spain and first years in Paris. It shows how the stage was set for the emergence of Dali's mature artistic personality.

With Salvador Dali as its figurehead, the great ship of Surrealism traversed the wild and turbulent sea of the Roaring Twenties, its sails full of winds blown by Sigmund Freud and Andre Breton. With their mysterious, dreamlike, fantastic imagery, the Surrealists made sensational waves in the art world.