ancient cultures and Indigenous art were used as vehicles of political activism and a general statement against conformity.

Surrealism, the art movement that gave us disembodied eyeballs ... Do its philosophical and political arguments have anything to say about contemporary life? Do we still, even in the faintest ...

Copious art-political zines and pamphlets, such as the Surrealist Marxist journal Légitime défense, are presented in glass vitrines. Also included is antifascist agitprop by French artist Claude ...

Having begun as a literary movement, surrealism soon morphed into an artistic one. Dreamlike imagery and visual games are its recurring features, as are an underlying political sensibility and a ...

Writing was the intended vehicle for this unbridled imagination; art was thought too ... in many ways, of the political self-understanding of Surrealism", co-curator Stephanie Weber tells the ...

using the logic of dreams and the effrontery of political (anarchist) rebellion. Surrealism suited cinema’s creative potential as a new, popular art form. Rodney Ascher’s interpretation of ...

He sought to create a new art movement that explored these ... The exhibition also examines the political dimensions of Surrealism. From its early days, the movement was deeply engaged with ...

Philadelphia Museum of Art, autumn 2025–spring 2026] This unique exhibit curated by María Elena Ortiz, looks at the history of Surrealism in the Caribbean and notions of the Afrosurreal in the US.

Gala Dalí moves onto center stage in Michèle Gerber Klein’s biography “Surreal ... most famous art couple in the world.” A lifelong reader of tarot cards, Gala would have been hard ...