Cover design for a 1961 copy of Surrealistische ontmoetingen by J.H. Moesman (Gift from Laurens Vancrevel and Frida de Jong to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen) The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in ...

I AM YOUR BROTHER—Gabriel Marlowe—Harcourt, Brace ($2). Not colitis but sinus is now the most fashionable physical complaint. Likewise Surrealism is the latest rash on the high brow of Art. Even ...

One hundred years ago the French poet André Breton published his “Manifesto of Surrealism,” establishing a movement that was as influential in the 20th century as Romanticism had been in the preceding ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission We live in a society that abjures shared reality for the chaos of ...

The Surrealists talked a good picture, and René Magritte was more a visual punster than a virtuoso painter. His art, Alex Danchev writes in this thoroughly and gruesomely entertaining biography, is “a ...

I first encountered the poetry of Guy R. Beining in 1976, when I published his chapbook, City Shingles, as the second book of my Sun & Moon Press. At the time, I described him to myself as one of the ...

THE LAST DAYS OF NEW PARIS, by China Miéville. Del Rey, 205 pp., $25. Page for page, there is no one generating more utterly unfamiliar ideas than author China Miéville (“Perdido Street Station,” “The ...

During quarantine, the social limits of home confinement can impose a surreal texture to simple everyday experiences. Many authors are great at conceptualizing the illusory nature of reality in odd ...

Bibliophiles rejoice—the Antiquarian Book Fair has returned. All this weekend, a wide assortment of historic tomes, manuscripts, first editions, illustrations, maps, and even collectible menus are ...

WILLIAM FAULKNER once remarked: “An artist is a creature driven by demons. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. If a ...