Dada & Surrealism

- A stimulating introduction to this 20th-century art movement that emerged from the disillusionment and questioning of accepted values
- Explores the work of a wide range of artists, from Marcel Duchamp and Raoul Hausmann to Max Ernst, René Magritte and Salvador Dalí
- Uses paintings, collages, sculptures, assemblages, photographs, photomontages, film stills and graphics to illustrate the rich variety of Dada and Surrealist art
- The first book to portray many of these works in colour


This stimulating introductory survey traces the origins and development of these two roughly parallel revolutionary twentieth-century art movements, exploring the full range of artistic production, including film, photography, collage, painting, graphics and object making.

Matthew Gale skilfully places the art within a context of ideas ranging from the disillusionment and questioning of accepted values that resulted from the senseless destruction of World War I to the use of the creative forces of the unconscious to undermine convention.