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Jean Painlevé Revealed the Otherworldliness Beneath the Water’s Surface

Avatar photo by Julia Curl September 15, 2022September 15, 2022

His detailed images of microscopic aquatic creatures suggest a version of Surrealism’s dream realities.

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Brandon Lattu’s Post-Camera Photography Employs Scanners, Photoshop, and Computer Programs

Avatar photo by Jeremy Sigler January 27, 2022January 27, 2022

Surrealist images of a Rice Krispies box or Yukon Gold potato explore how data is transformed into the visual language called art.

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Exhilarating Dreamlands of the Unconscious at the Met Museum

Avatar photo by Mark Dery January 13, 2022January 13, 2022

Tensions between resistance to Surrealism as cultural imperialism and the embrace of it as a universalist vision of freedom unfettered run through the show.

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A Fanciful Collection of Over 4,000 Rare Surrealist Books and Periodicals

by Cassie Packard January 28, 2021January 31, 2021

Collectors Laurens Vancrevel and Frida de Jong, who have been building a collection of international Surrealist literature since the 1960s, donated the trove to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

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The Surrealist Roots of the “Vaporwave” Genre

Avatar photo by Filippo Lorenzin September 17, 2020November 5, 2020

The aesthetic niche combining electronic music and digital art finds an ancestor in Surrealism, particularly in the self-taught French painter Yves Tanguy.

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Climbing a Symbolic Mountain With a Surrealist Writer

by Nolan Kelly August 1, 2020November 5, 2020

Long out of print, Mount Analogue, René Daumal’s cult classic, offers a tale of renunciation and self-acceptance.

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A Fleeting Glimpse of Francesca Woodman

by Michael Glover May 30, 2020May 29, 2020

Woodman was one of the 20th century’s great surrealists.

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An Ebay Purchase That Revealed the Everyday Lives of French Surrealists

Avatar photo by Karen Chernick May 12, 2020August 24, 2021

Reading between the lines of contact information for friends, graphologists, psychoanalysts, and plumbers, Brigitte Benkemoun’s Finding Dora Maar reveals a map of a bygone France.

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Penelope Rosemont’s Essays Expand the Surrealist Canon

Avatar photo by Marcella Durand December 14, 2019December 13, 2019

Threaded through this collection is an optimistic belief in Surrealism as a world-changing political and poetic practice.

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How Surrealism’s Playful Aesthetic Was Deeply Political

by Ela Bittencourt September 16, 2019December 21, 2022

The Surrealists’ insistence on irrationality was not a sport, but an attempt to engage in the political debates of their time.

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An English Translation of Belgian Surrealist Writing

Avatar photo by Elizabeth Zuba January 12, 2019January 10, 2019

Authors Paul Nougé, Paul Colinet, and Louis Scutenaire exhibited a staunch ethic of underground and elliptical obscurity.

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A New Collection of Surrealist Writings Focuses on Women Authors

by Joseph Nechvatal November 19, 2018November 16, 2018

The Milk Bowl of Feathers shows how women’s contributions to the Surrealist literary canon captivatingly crack the wall of Surrealist phallocracy.

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