Surreal Lives: The Surrealists 1917-1945

by Ruth Brandon

Book Overview

In the years following World War I, a small group of writers, painters, and filmmakers called the Surrealists set out to change the way we perceive the world. In Surreal Lives, Ruth Brandon follows the lives and interactions of such firecracker minds as the movement's didactic Pope, Andre Breton, and the ambitious and manic Salvador Dali, as well as Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Tristan Tzara, Man Ray, Max Ernst, and filmmaker Luis Bunuel. It charts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080213727X
• ISBN13: 9780802137272
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 554 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"