Surrealism, a significant artistic and intellectual movement that dominated the 20th century still inspires an avid interest today. Surrealist exhibitions proliferate the world over, and books devoted to the movement's illustrious participants abound. Rather than the lingering memory of a past poetic and pictorial adventure, Surrealism has proven to be a permanently relevant force.

Surrealism, the great intellectual and artistic movement that dominated the 20th century, still has the power to create excitement today. Numerous exhibitions held around the world and books devoted to the subject attest to the fact that rather than being the remnant of a poetical-pictorial revolution long finished, surrealism is a fact of permanent relevance. In this book, Sarane Alexandrian, friend of Andre Breton and head of the secretariat of the Internationale Surrealiste in the post World War Ⅱ period, brings together 200 works by the greater and lesser masters of surrealism, illustrating the vast possibilities of this art form of seeing and revealing. Surrealism is a tribute to the power of the imagination, to the surprises of everyday life offered by chance or the observation of strange phenomena, to the sense of the sacred through cosmic mysteries and to any marvel of creation captured by an artist and enhanced by inspiration. We see how surrealist painting, through its abundant originality of spirit aod technique, was at the center of modern art's struggle.