The Real World of the Surrealists

Surrealism was born as a reaction to the chaos and senseless destruction of the First World War, and flowered in the inter-war years of the twenties and thirties. Far more than an art movement, to those who embraced it Surrealism was a way of life designed to shcok bourgeois attitudes, and the Surrealists' targets were the very framwork of a stable society -- family, nation and church. In this superbly illustrated book Malcolm Haslam describes the background of hte Surrealists' and Dadaists' struggle against the establishment. Includes many unique photographs and well as film stills of this very real world.