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The essays, manifestos, poems, and texts in this anthology offer a composite picture of the Surrealists - their convictions, styles, and spirit - from the movement's beginnings in France just after World War I to its second flowering in America after World War II. The book includes writers and artists from Belgium, Chile, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Guyana, Italy, Martinique, Mauritius, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, Senegal, Uruguay, and the United States. Caws's main criterion for inclusion was that the works be the best and most representative of the different forms of Surrealism. Among others, the artists and writers include Andr Breton, Marcel Duchamp and Rose S lavy, Max Ernst, Mina Loy, Francis Picabia, and Tristan Tzara.

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This volume provides the essential textual soundtrack to one of the twentieth century's most influential and controversial art movements. Jeffrey Snowbarger Booklist The images and texts in this glossy anthology are often startling and almost always beautiful. Boston Phoenix

The images and texts in this glossy anthology are often startling and almost always beautiful. -- Boston Phoenix This volume provides the essential textual soundtrack to one of the twentieth century's most influential and controversial art movements. -- Jeffrey Snowbarger, Booklist

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Mary Ann Caws, an art historian, literary critic, and translator, is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature in the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is the author, editor, or translator of more than forty books in the fields of poetry and the avant-garde.

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