An excerpt from a catalog for a Surrealist art exhibition in New York, 1942.

Surrealism was a literary and artistic movement that developed in Europe in the years after World War I. Surrealist artists, like Picasso, were interested in the irrational and uncontrollable ideas held deep in the subconscious, which led them to emphasize human emotions through distorted forms and jarring imagery.

Citation Information
Breton, André, and Marcel Duchamp, excerpt from “First papers of surrealism: hanging by André Breton, his twine Marcel Duchamp,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/44f9c0085c6cdb04886877b89ed63edf.
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Courtesy of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Library via Internet Archive.

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