Literary and art movement influenced by Freudianism and dedicated to the expression of imagination as revealed in dreams, free of the conscious control of reason and free of convention. The movement was founded (1924) in Paris by André Breton, with his Manifeste du surréalisme, but its ancestry is traced to the French poets Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and to the Italian painter, Giorgio de Chirico.
- Groundbreaking exhibit on British Surrealism. An exhibit at the Leeds Central Gallery provided an eye-opening glimpse at a significant moment in the history of British and international Surrealism. wsws.org/arts/1998/may1998/sur-m12.shtml
Surrealist painters' links and biographies, including Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Ana Mendieta, and Francesca Woodman. www.hungryflower.com/leonreme.html
A lecture given in Brussels on 1st June 1934 at a public meeting organised by the Belgian Surrealists, and issued as a pamphlet immediately afterwards pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/~fa1871/whatsurr.html