Includes bibliographical references and index.

A new Declaration of the Rights of Man -- Concrete Sculpture/ Hans Arp -- The Doll / Hans Bellmer -- The Image as Produced by Automatic Writing / Brassai -- Mystery and Melancholy of a Street/ Giorgio de Chirico-- The Disquieting Muses / Giorgio de Chirico -- The Enigma of Desire - My Mother, my Mother, my Mother / Salvador Dali -- The Persistence of Memory / Salvador Dali -- Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) / Salvador Dali -- Giraffe on Fire / Salvador Dali -- Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate, a Second Before Waking up / Salvador Dali -- Dawn Over the City / Paul Delvaux -- Approaching Puberty or The Pleiades/ Max Ernst -- The Elephant of Celebes/ Max Ernst -- Loplop Presents a Flower or Anthropomorphic Figure with Shell Flower/ Max Ernst -- The King Playing with the Queen / Max Ernst -- Man and Woman / Alberto Giacometti -- Room Perspective with Inhabitants, 1921, 24 / Paul Klee -- The Jungle / Wifredo Lam -- The Key to Dreams/ Rene Magritte -- The Door to Freedom / Rene Magritte-- Time Transfixed/ Rene Magritte -- The Empire of Lights/ Rene Magritte -- The Villagers / Andre Masson -- Year 44/ Matta -- Stars in the Sexual Organs of Snails / Joan Miro -- Collage / Joan Miro -- Woman / Joan Miro -- Fur Breakfast / Meret Oppenheim -- Composition with Glove/ Pablo Picasso -- Woman in a Red Armchair/ Pablo Picasso -- Corrida / Pablo Picasso -- Woman with Foliage/ Pablo Picasso -- Le violon d'Ingres/ Man Ray -- The Dark Garden/ Yves Tanguy -- Day of Slowness/ Yves Tanguy.

"Surrealism is a style in the visual arts and modern literature which appeared in Paris after the First World War. The Surrealists sought to eliminate logic along with the boundaries between the Normal and the Fantastical, in order to create a better world through free associative play, using the forces of the subconscious. Their pictures are characterized by a spatial, material, non-abstract manner of painting with an almost photographic sharpness of detail, and they are more topical now than ever before. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.