THE REAL WORLD OF THE SURREALIST

MALCOLM HASLAM

Surrealismo 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 twentist and thirties. Far more than anart movement, to those Who embraced It Surrealismo was a way of life designed to shock bourgeois actitudes, and the Surrealist targets were the very framework of a stable society. In this superbly illustrated book Malcom Haslam describes the background of the Surrealist and dadaist struggle against the establishment, front their origins to the eve of the second world war. Chirico, Dali, Miró, ERNST, Magritte