Surrealism

Protagonists, journals

• 50 u Evropi
• Acéphale
• Louis Aragon
• Georges Bataille
• Vane Bor
• Salmon Monny de Boully
• André Breton
• Leonora Carrington
• Suzanne Césaire
• Giorgio de Chirico
• Salvador Dalí
• Oskar Davičo
• Milan Dedinac
• Robert Desnos
• Documents
• Max Ernst
• Anneliese Hager
• Jindřich Heisler
• Georges Hugnet
• Đorđe Jovanović
• Slobodan Kušić
• Michel Leiris
• London Bulletin
• René Magritte
• Dušan Matić
• E.L.T. Mesens
• Branislav Branko Milovanović
• Nadrealizam danas i ovde
• Vítězslav Nezval
• Benjamin Péret
• Rastko Petrović
• Le Phare de Neuilly
• Konstantin Koča Popović
• Petar Popović
• Gisèle Prassinos
• Risto Ratković
• Man Ray
• La Révolution surréaliste
• Marko Ristić
• Ševa Ristić
• Penelope Rosemont
• Philippe Soupault
• Jindřich Štyrský
• Le Surréalisme au service de la révolution
• Surréalisme
• Dušan Duda Timotijević
• Unu
• Aleksandar Vučo
• Julijana Lula Vučo
• Nikola Vučo
• Radojica Živanović Noe
• Zvěrokruh

Publications

Journals

Grouped by city of publisher. Titles are hyperlinked to their online editions.

Paris

• La Révolution surréaliste, 12 numbers, eds. Pierre Naville, Benjamin Péret, et al., Paris, 1924-29. (French)

• Surréalisme, 1 number, ed. Ivan Goll, Paris, 1924. (French)

• Le Grand Jeu, 4 numbers, eds. Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, René Daumal, Roger Vailland, and Joseph Sima, Paris, 1928-32. (French)

• Documents, 15 numbers, ed. Georges Bataille, Paris, 1929-31. (French)

• Bifur, 8 numbers, ed. Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Paris: Éditions du Carrefour, 1929-31. (French)

• Le Surréalisme au service de la révolution, 6 numbers, Paris, 1930-33. (French)

• Légitime défense, 1 number, eds. Etienne Léro, et al., Paris, 1932. Proclaimed the Black self-affirmation movement of Négritude and attacked French colonialism. [1] (French)

• Le Phare de Neuilly, 4 numbers, ed. Lise Deharme, Paris, 1933. (French)

• Minotaure, eds. André Breton and Pierre Mabille, Paris: Albert Skira, 1933-39. (French)

• Bulletin international du surréalisme, 4 numbers, Paris, Prague, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Brussels and London, 1935-36. Number 2. [2] (French),(Czech),(Spanish)

• Acéphale: religion, sociologie, philosophie, 5 numbers, ed. Georges Bataille, Paris: G.L.M., 1936-39. (French)

• La Main à plume, 8 numbers, eds. Noël Arnaud and Jean-François Chabrun, Paris, 1941-45. [3] [4] [5] (French)

• La Révolution la nuit, Paris, 1945-46. (French)

• Néon, 5 numbers, Paris: La Hune, 1948-49. (French)

• Le désir libertaire, Paris, 1973-81. (French)

• Surrealisme, 2 numbers, ed. Vincent Bounoure, Paris: Savelli, 1977. No. 1. (French)

Brussels

• Correspondance, 22 numbers, eds. Paul Nougé, Camille Goemans and Marcel Lecomte, Brussels, Nov 1924-Jun 1925. (French)

• Marie: journal bimensuel pour la belle jeunesse, 4 numbers, ed. E.L.T. Messens, Brussels, 1926. [6] (French)

• Distances, 3 numbers, eds. Camille Goemans and Paul Nougé, Brussels and Paris, 1928. (French)

• Mauvais temps, 1 number, ed. Rupture, La Louvière, 1935. (French)

• L'Invention Collective, 2 numbers, eds. Raoul Ubac and René Magritte, Brussels, Feb-Apr 1940. [7] (French)

• Bulletin international du surréalisme révolutionnaire, 1 number, ed. Christian Dotremont, Brussels, 1948, JPG. [8] (French)

• Le Surréalisme révolutionnaire, 2 numbers, eds. Noël Arnaud, Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn, and Zdenek Lorenc, Brussels and Paris, 1948, 1/JPG (French)

Belgrade

• Svedočanstva (Сведочанства), 8 numbers, Belgrade, Nov 1924-Mar 1925. [9] (Serbian)

• Večnost (Вечност), 5 numbers, eds. Risto Ratković and Mony de Boully, Belgrade, Jan-Jun 1926. (Serbian)

• Tragovi, 3 numbers, eds. Đorđe Kostić, Oskar Davičo, and Đorđe Jovanović, Belgrade, 1928-29. (Serbian)

• 50 u Evropi (50. у Европи), 3 numbers, ed. Zvezdan Vujadinović, Belgrade, Dec 1928-Jul 1929. (Serbian)

• Nadrealizam danas i ovde, 3 numbers, Belgrade: Nadrealistička izdanja, Jun 1931-Jun 1932. (Serbian)

Bucharest

• unu: avantgardă literară, 50 numbers, ed. Saşa Pană, Bucharest, 1928-32. (Romanian)

Buenos Aires

• Qué (Revista de interrogantes), 2 numbers, eds. Aldo Pellegrini and Elías Piterbarg, Buenos Aires, Nov 1928-Dec 1930. [10] (Spanish)

• Ciclo: arte, literatura y pensamiento modernos, 2 numbers, eds. Aldo Pellegrini, Enrique Pichon-Rivière and Elías Piterbarg, Buenos Aires, 1948-49. [11] [12] (Spanish)

• A partir de cero: revista de poesía y antipoesía, 3 numbers, eds. Aldo Pellegrini and Enrique Molina, Buenos Aires: Talleres Gráficos Verdad, 1952-56. (Spanish)

• Cero, 8 numbers, eds. Vicente Zito Lema and Raul Castro, Buenos Aires, 1964-67. (Spanish)

Prague

• Zvěrokruh: měsíčník soudobého umění, 2 numbers, ed. Vítězslav Nezval, Prague: Studentské knihkupectví, 1930. (Czech)

• Analogon, Prague, 1969-. (Czech)

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

• Gaceta de arte: revista internacional de cultura, 38 numbers, ed. Eduardo Westerdahl, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1932-36, UAM. Esp. numbers 35 and 36 are devoted to surrealism. (Spanish)

• Boletín internacional del surrealismo, 2, ed. Eduardo Westerdahl, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Oct 1935. Special issue of Gaceta de arte to accompany a surrealist exhibition in Tenerife. (Spanish)

Copenhagen

• Linien, 12 numbers, eds. Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen, Ejler Bille, and Richard Mortensen, Copenhagen, 1934-35. (Danish)

• Konkretion. Interskandinavisk tidsskrift for kunsten af i dag, 6 numbers, ed. Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen, Copenhagen/Oslo/Stockholm, 1935-36. (Danish),(Norwegian),(Swedish)

Shanghai

• Yifeng [Art Wind] 3(10): "Surrealism", Shanghai, Oct 1935. Special issue of the journal. (Chinese)

Santo Domingo

• La poesía sorprendida: poesía con el hombre universal, eds. Eugenio Granell, et al., Ciudad Trujillo, 1937-47. (Spanish)

London

• London Bulletin, 20 numbers, ed. E.L.T. Mesens, London: London Gallery, Apr 1938-Jun 1940. (English),(French)

• Arson: An Ardent Review, 1 number, ed. Toni del Renzio, London, 1942. (English)

• Message from Nowhere/Message de Nulle Part: Collection of Poetry, Drawing & Criticism, 1 number, ed. E.L.T. Mesens, London: London Gallery, Nov 1944. (English),(French)

Santiago de Chile

• Mandrágora, 7 numbers, eds. Braulio Arenas, Teófilo Cid, Enrique Gómez-Correa, and Jorge Cáceres, Santiago de Chile, 1938-43, UAM. (Spanish)

• Leit motiv: boletín de hechos & ideas, 3 numbers, ed. Braulio Arenas, Santiago de Chile, 1942-43. [13] [14] (Spanish)

• Boletin surrealista, 1 number, Santiago de Chile, 1943. (Spanish)

New York

• View, 32 issues, eds. Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler, New York: Charles Henri Ford, 1940-47, 5:1/JPG. [15] [16] [17] [18] (English)

• VVV, 4 numbers, eds. David Hare, with André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, and Max Ernst, New York, 1942-44. [19] [20] (English)

Fort-de-France, Martinique

• Tropiques: revue culturelle, 14 numbers, ed. Aimé Césaire, Martinique: Fort-de-France, Apr 1941-Sep 1945. [21] [22] (French)

Mexico City

• DYN, 6 numbers, ed. Wolfgang Paalen, Mexico City, 1942-44. [23] [24] (English),(French)

Madrid

• Postismo, 1 number, ed. Carlos Edmundo de Ory, Madrid, 1945. (Spanish)

• La Cerbatana: revista ilustrada de la nueva estética, 1 number, ed. Carlos Edmundo de Ory, Madrid, 1945. (Spanish)

Cairo

• La part du sable, 4 numbers, ed. Ramses Younan, Cairo, 1947-55. [25] (French)

Tehran

• Khorus janai, Tehran, 1949.

Lisbon

• Unicornio (Bicórnio, Tricórnio, Tetracórnio, Pentacórnio): Antologia de Inéditos de Autores Portugueses Contemporâneos, 5 numbers, ed. J.-A. França, et al., Lisbon, 1951-56. Published annually. [26] (Portuguese)

Athens

• Pali, 1964-66. (Greek)

São Paulo

• A phala, 1967.

Chicago

• Arsenal: Surrealist Subversion, 4 numbers, ed. Franklin Rosemont, Chicago: Black Swan Press, 1970-1976/1989. PDF/1, PDF/2, PDF/3. [27] [28] (English)

more

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Collective publications

See also magazines above.

• Variétés: "Le Surréalisme en 1929", ed. P.-G. van Hecke, Brussels, Jun 1929, 68 pp. Special issue of the journal. [31] (French)

• Oskar Davičo, Đorđe Kostić, Đorđe Jovanović, Četiri strane – Onanizam smrti – I tako dalje, Belgrade: Nadrealistička izdanja, 1930, [4] pp. Placard magazine. (Serbian)

• Nemoguće / L'Impossible (Немогуће), Belgrade: Nadrealistička izdanja, May 1930, PDF; repr., afterw. Milanka Todić, Belgrade: Muzej primenjene umetnosti, 2012, 150 pp. Almanac. [32] [33] (Serbian)/(French)

• Fifth Floor Window 1(3): "Surrealist Issue", Feb 1932. (English)

• Oskar Davičo, Đorđe Kostić, Dušan Matić, Položaj nadrealizma u društvenom procesu, Belgrade: Nadrealistička izdanja, 1932. (Serbian)

• Violette nozières, Brussels: Nicolas Flamel, [1933]. Poems by Andre Breton, Rene Char, Paul Eluard, a.o.; illustrations by Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, a.o. (French)

• Documents 34 1: "Intervention surréaliste", ed. E.L.T. Mesens, Brussels, Jun 1934, 94+[10] pp, KHZ; facs. repr. in L'Arc 37, Aix-en-Provence, 1969, [91] pp; repr., 1990. Special issue of the journal. (French)

• Karel Teige, Ladislav Štoll (eds.), Surrealismus v diskusi, Prague: Levá fronta, 1934, 109 pp. (Czech)

• Vítězslav Nezval (ed.), Surrealismus, Prague: Josef Janda, 1936, 56 pp. (Czech)

• Karel Teige, Surrealismus proti proudu. Dvě polemické kapitoly (Surrealistická skupina odpovídá Vítězslavu Nezvalovi, J. Fučíkovi, Kurtu Konradovi, St. K. Neumannovi, J. Rybákovi, L. Štollovi a. j.), Prague: Surrealistická skupina, 1938, 68 pp. (Czech)

• Áno a nie. Zborník 1938, eds. Mikuláš Bakoš and Klement Šimončič, Bratislava: Eos, 1938. [34] (Slovak)

• Sen a skutočnosť. Sborník poezie a umenia, ed. Michal Povážan, Bratislava: Universum, 1940. [35] (Slovak)

• Vo dne a v noci. Sborník poézie a umenia, ed. Michal Povážan, Bratislava: Skarabeus and FKM, 1941. [36] (Slovak)

• Pozdrav. Almanach poézie, eds. Michal Povážan and Vladimír Reisel, Bratislava: Skarabeus, 1942. [37] (Slovak)

• al-Fann wa-l-Hurriyya/Art et Liberté, La séance continue [The Séance Continues], Cairo, 1945. (French)

• Manifeste des surrealistes-revolutionnaires en France, Paris, [c.Jul] 1947, [4] pp, JPG. (French)

• La Nef 63-64: "Almanach surréaliste du demi-siècle", ed. André Breton, Paris: Sagittaire, Mar-Apr 1950, 135 pp. (French)

Catalogues

Alfred H. Barr Jr. (ed.), Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, 1936, Log, PDF; 2nd ed., 1937, PDF.

• Exposition surréaliste. sculptures, objets, peintures, dessins, Paris: Pierre Colle, 1933. Exh. held 7-18 Jun 1933. (French)

• Exposition surréaliste d'objets, du 22 au 29 mai 1936, Paris: Galerie Charles Ratton, 1936, [6] pp. (French)

• The International Surrealist Exhibition, pref. André Breton, intro. Herbert Read, London, 1936, 31 pp. Catalogue of an exhibition held 11 Jun-4 Jul 1936 at the New Burlington Galleries, London. (English)

• Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, ed. Alfred H. Barr Jr., New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1936, 248 pp; 2nd ed., rev. & enl., 1937, 294 pp. Exh. held 7 Dec 1936-17 Jan 1937. [38] [39] (English)

• Album surréaliste. Kaigai chōgenjitsu shugi sakuhinshū [海外超現實主義作品集], eds. Shuzo Takiguchi and Tiroux Yamanaka, Tokyo: Shunchōkai (春鳥會), Shōwa 12 (昭和12) [1937], 112 pp. Catalogue of the International Surrealist Exhibition; the exhibition traveled Kyoto, Nagoya, and Osaka. [40] (Japanese),(French)

• Exposition internationale du surréalisme, eds. André Breton and Paul Eluard, Paris: Galerie Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1938, 7+75 pp. Exh. held 17 Jan-24 Feb 1938. (French)

• Art of This Century: Objects, Drawings, Photographs, Paintings, Sculpture, Collage 1910 to 1942, ed. Peggy Guggenheim, pref. André Breton, Jean Arp and Piet Mondrian, New York: Art of This Century and Art Aid Corporation, 1942; repr., New York: Arno Press, 1968, 155 pp. Catalogue of a permanent exh.; gallery existed 1942-47. (English)

• First Papers of Surrealism, forew. Sidney Janis, New York: Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, 1942. Exh. held 14 Oct-7 Nov 1942. (English)/(French)

• Le surréalisme en 1947. Exposition internationale du surréalisme, eds. Andre Breton and Marcel Duchamp, Paris, 1947, 141 pp. [41] (French)

• Skånsk avantgardekonst [Skånsk avant-garde art], Malmö: Image förlag, 1949, [26] pp. [42] [43] Template:Se

• Surrealistisk manifestation, ed. Wilhelm Freddie, Stockholm: Expo Aleby, 1949, [4] pp. [44] [45] [46] Template:Se

Anthologies

Surrealist Women: An International Anthology, 1998, PDF, Log.

Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora, 2009, PDF.

• Új francia költők, eds. József Molnár and Aladár Tamás, Budapest: Uj Föld Kiadasa, 1927, 71 pp, KHZ. (Hungarian)

• Surrealism, ed. & intro. Herbert Read, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1936; repr., St. Clair Shores, MI: Scholarly Press, 1977, 251+[48] pp. (English)

• Histoire du surréalisme, 2. Documents surréalistes, ed. Maurice Nadeau, Paris: Seuil, 1948, 398 pp; repr. as "Documents surréalistes", in Nadeau, Histoire du surréalisme, suivie de Documents surréalistes, Paris: Seuil, 1964, pp 195-498. (French)

• Antología de la poesía surrealista de lengua francesa, ed., notes & trans. Aldo Pellegrini, Buenos Aires: Compañía General Fabril Editora, 1961, 353 pp; 2nd ed., Barcelona: Argonauta, 1981, 353 pp; 3rd ed., Buenos Aires: Argonauta, 2006, 353+35 pp. [47] [48] (Spanish)

• "Surrealistické defenestrace", ed. Jan Řezáč, Světová literatura 1-6, Prague, 1967, [110] pp. Serial publication. (Czech)

• "Dada, Surrealism, and Scuola metafisica: The Irrational and the Dream", ch. 7 in Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics, ed. Herschel Browning Chipp, University of California Press, 1968, pp 366-375 & 397-444. (English)

• André Breton, Manifestoes of Surrealism, trans. Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1969. (English)

• Avantgarda 38. Štúdie, články, eseje, ed. Mikuláš Bakoš, Bratislava: Slovenský spisovateľ, 1969, 291 pp. (Slovak)

• Surrealists on Art, ed. Lucy R. Lippard, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1970, 213 pp. (English)

• André Breton, Manifestes du surréalisme. Éditions complètes, Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1972. (French)

• André Breton, What is Surrealism: Selected Writings, Pathfinder Press, 1978. (English)

• The Shadow and Its Shadow: Surrealist Writings on the Cinema, ed., trans. & intro. Paul Hammond, London: British Film Institute, 1978; 2nd ed., Edinburgh: Polygon, 1991; 3rd ed., rev. & exp., San Francisco: City Lights, 2000, 225 pp. (English)

• Tracts surréalistes et déclarations collectives, Tome 1, 1922-1939, intro. & comm. José Pierre, Paris: Éric Losfeld, 1980, 544 pp. [49] (French)

• Karel Teige, Surrealismo, realismo socialista, irrealismo: 1934-1951, ed. Sergio Corduas, trans. Sergio Corduas, Antonella D'Amelia and Barbara Zane, Torino: Einaudi, 1982, 328 pp. (Italian)

• Georges Bataille, The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism, ed., trans. & intro. Michael Richardson, London: Verso, 1994, vii+211 pp. (English)

• Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and the Carribean, ed. Michael Richardson, trans. Krzysztof Fijałkowski and Michael Richardson, London: Verso, 1996, 302 pp. [50] [51] [52] (English)

• The Forecast Is Hot! Tracts & Other Collective Declarations Of The Surrealist Movement In The United States 1966-1976, eds. Paul Garon, Penelope Rosemont, and Franklin Rosemont, Chicago: Black Swan Press, 1997. [53] [54] (English)

• Surrealist Women: An International Anthology, ed. Penelope Rosemont, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998, lvii+516 pp; London: Athlone Press, 1998. (English)

• Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology, ed. Mary Ann Caws, MIT Press, 2001, 530 pp. (English)

• Surrealism Against the Current: Tracts and Declarations, eds. & trans. Michael Richardson and Krzysztof Fijałkowski, London: Pluto Press, 2001, 232 pp, ARG. [55] (English)

• Nadrealizmus. Avantgarda 38, ed. Milan Hamada, Bratislava: Kalligram, 2006, 663 pp. Review: Malá (Česká lit). (Slovak)

• Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora, eds. Franklin Rosemont and Robin D.G. Kelley, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. [56] (English)

• Critical Survey of Poetry: Surrealist Poets, Salem Press, 2012, iv+280 pp. (English)

• The Milk Bowl of Feathers: Essential Surrealist Writings, ed. Mary Ann Caws, New Directions, 2018. [57]. Review: Nechvatal (Hyperallergic). (English)

Resources

• Surrealism: European Context of the Serbian Surrealism, ed. Aleksandra Mirčić. (Serbian)/(English)/(French)

• Surrealism in Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art. (Spanish)/(English)

• El surrealismo y sus derivas: digitalización, análisis y edición de revistas surrealistas de Argentina, Chile y España. (Spanish)

• Revolutionary Situationism at Beinecke. (English)

• Art, Literature, and the Surrealist Legacy in Experimental Publishing, 1938–1968, online companion to 2006 exhibition at MoMA. (English)

• How to Make a Modern Art Library: Selections from the Éluard-Dausse Collection, online companion to 2009 exhibition at MoMA. (English)

• Surrealist Movement in the United States, archive

• Surrealist NYC, ed. Paul McRandle

Literature

William S. Rubin, Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage, 1968, PDF.

Dada/Surrealism, 18: "Surrealism and Women", 1990, PDFs.

Michael Löwy, Morning Star: Surrealism, Marxism, Anarchism, Situationism, Utopia, 2009, Log.

• Walter Benjamin, "Der Sürrealismus: Die letzte Momentaufnahme der europäischen Intelligenz", Literarischen Welt, Feb 1929; repr. in Benjamin, Gesammelte Schriften, II/1, 1977, pp 295-310. (German)
  • "Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia", trans. Edmond Jephcott, New Left Review 108 (1978), pp 47-56, HTML; repr. in Benjamin, One-Way Street and Other Writings, 1979. (English)

• Julien Levy, Surrealism, New York: Black Sun Press, 1936, 191 pp; facs.repr., New York: Arno, 1968; new ed., intro. Mark Polizzotti, New York: Da Capo Press, New York, 1995, viii+191 pp. (English)

• Maurice Nadeau, Histoire du surréalisme, Paris: Seuil, 1945, 358 pp; repr., 1964, 190 pp; repr. as "Histoire du surréalisme", in Nadeau, Histoire du surréalisme, suivie de Documents surréalistes, Paris: Seuil, 1964, pp 13-194. (French)
  • Historia del surrealismo, trans. Raúl Navarro, Buenos Aires: Santiago Rueda, 1948, 360 pp. (Spanish)
  • The History of Surrealism, trans. Richard Howard, intro. Roger Shattuck, New York: Macmillan, 1965, 351 pp. (English)
  • Geschichte des Surrealismus: Aragon, Artaud, Breton, Dali, Eluard, Ernst, Péret, Queneau, Reverdy, Soupault, Tzara, trans. Karl Heinz Laier, Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1965, 261 pp; new ed., 1986, 247 pp. (German)
  • Shūrurearisumu no rekishi, trans. Sankichi Inada and Hiromi Ōsawa, Tokyo: Shichōsha, 1966, 312 pp. (Japanese)
  • Historia del surrealismo, trans. Juan-Ramón Capella, Esplugues de Llobregat: Ariel, 1972, 259 pp. (Spanish)
  • Ē istoria tou sourrealismou, trans. Alexandra Papathanasopoulou, Athens: Plethron, 1978, 257 pp. (Greek)

• Yale French Studies 31: "Surrealism", 1964. [58] (English)

• Život umjetnosti 3-4: "Nadrealizam", Zagreb, 1967. Journal section. (Serbo-Croatian)

• Princip slasti: surrealismus, eds. Vincent Bournoure, Claude Courtot, and José Pierre, Brno: Dům umění, Prague: Narodní galerie, and Bratislava: Galerie mladých, 1968, 23+[26] pp. Catalogue for the exh. of the Paris Surrealist group at Dům pánů z Kunštátu in Brno (Feb-Mar), the Galerie sbírek moderního umění in Prague (Mar-Apr) and the Galerie mladých in Bratislava (Apr-May). (Czech)

• William S. Rubin, Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1968, 251 pp, PDF, OL. Catalogue; exh. held Mar-Jun 1968. (English)

• 1929-1950: Nadrealizam, socijalana umetnost, ed. Miodrag B. Protić, Belgrade: Muzej primenjene umetnosti, 1969, 291 pp. Catalogue; in the exhibition the work of the Belgrade Surrealists was reconstructed, studied and exhibited as a whole for the first time. With texts by Miodrag B. Protić, Jerko Denegri, et al. [59] (Serbo-Croatian)

• Radical America 4(1): "Surrealism in the Service of Revolution", ed. Franklin Rosemont, Madison, WI: SDS, Jan 1970, 96 pp, PDF. (English)

• Peter Bürger, Der französische Surrealismus. Studien zur avantgardistischen Literatur, Frankfurt am Main: Athenäum, 1971, 207 pp; exp.ed., Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1996. (German)

• Dada/Surrealism journal, ed. Timothy Shipe, 1971-1990, and since 2013. [60] (English)

• Der Surrealismus 1922-1942, Munich: Haus der Kunst, 1972, 95+200 pp. Catalogue. [61] (German)

• C. Brian Morris, Surrealism and Spain 1920-1936, Cambridge University Press, 1972, x+291 pp.
  • El surrealismo y España, 1920-1936, trans. Fuencisla Escribano, Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 2000, 462 pp. (Spanish)

• C.W.E. Bigsby, Dada & Surrealism, London: Methuen, 1972, 91 pp; repr., London: Routledge, 2018. Review: Matthews (Symposium). (English)

• Jindřich Chalupecký, O dada, surrealismu a českém umění, O. Hamera (samizdat), [1976], 33 pp, IA; repr. in Jazzpetit 2 (1980); repr. in Chalupecký, Cestou necestou, 1999, pp 194-228. (Czech)

• Jules-François Dupuis [Raoul Vaneigem], Histoire désinvolte du surréalisme, Nonville: Paul Vermont, 1977, 164 pp; repr., Paris: Libertalia, 2013, 151 pp. (French)
  • A Cavalier History of Surrealism, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith, Edinburgh: AK Press, 1999, 131 pp. (English)
  • more translations

• Dawn Ades, Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, intro. David Sylvester, London: Arts Council of Great Britain & Hayward Gallery, 1978, xi+475+16 pp. Catalogue. (English)

• Cultural Correspondence 10/11: "Surrealism & Its Popular Accomplices", Fall 1979, 120 pp. [62] (English)

• RoseLee Goldberg, "Surrealist Performance: 'The Construction of Ruins'", ch 4 in Goldberg, Performance: Live Art 1909 to the Present, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1979, pp 49-62. (English)

• Linda Williams, Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film, University of Illinois Press, 1981; University of California Press, 1992. Based on 1977 dissertation from U Colorado. (English)

• Jean-Claude Michel, Ecrivains noirs et le surréalisme, Sherbrooke, Québec: Naaman, 1982, 181 pp; 2nd ed., Port-au-Prince, Haïti: Imprimatur, 2002, 247 pp. Based on 1979 dissertation from U Michigan. (French)
  • The Black Surrealists, Peter Lang, 2000. (English)

• Surrealismus, ed. Peter Bürger, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1982. (German)

• Marguerita Bonnet, Jacqueline Chénieux-Gendron, Revues surréalistes françaises autour d'André Breton: 1948-1972, Milwood, NY: Kraus, 1982, x+294 pp. (French)

• Whitney Chadwick, Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, London: Thames & Hudson, 1985, 256 pp. Chapter 1. (English)
  • Les femmes dans le mouvement surréaliste, Paris: Chêne, 1986, 256 pp; Paris: Thames & Hudson, 2002, 256 pp. (French)
  • Shuru sekushuariti: shururearisumu to onnatachi 1924-47 [シュルセクシュアリティ: シュルレアリスムと女たち.1924-47], trans. Toshiharu Itō and Yūko Hasegawa, Tokyo: Paruko Shuppan, 1989, 365 pp. (Japanese)

• Rosalind Krauss, Jane Livingston, L'Amour fou: Photography & Surrealism, Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, and New York: Abbeville Press, 1985, 243 pp. Catalogue for exh. held Sep-Nov 1985. First Krauss' essay. (English)
  • Explosante-fixe: photographie & surréalisme, trans. Dominique Le Bourg, Camille Hercot and Dominique Saran, Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou/Hazan, 1985, 243 pp. Exh. held Apr-Jun 1985. (French)

• Samir Gharib, Surrealism in Egypt and Plastic Arts, Cairo: Foreign Cultural Information Department, 1986.

• Rudolf E. Kuenzli (ed.), Dada and Surrealist Film, New York: Willis Locker & Owens, 1987, 254 pp; MIT Press, 1996, 254 pp. (English)

• Odette and Alain Virmaux, Les surréalistes et le cinéma, Ramsay, 1988. (French)

• Mary Ann Caws, Rudolf E. Kuenzli, Gwen Raaberg (eds.), Dada/Surrealism, 18: "Surrealism and Women", 1990; repr. as Surrealism and Women, MIT Press, 1991, 240 pp. Sixteen essays. TOC. Publisher. (English)

• Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art, ed. Sidra Stich, New York: Abbeville Press, 1990, 264 pp. Catalogue. (English)

• Wayne Andrews, The Surrealist Parade, afterw. James Laughlin, New York: New Directions Books, 1990, 178 pp. (English)

• Marguerite Bonnet (ed.), Adhérer au Parti communiste? Septembre-décembre 1926, Paris: Gallimard, 1992, 119 pp. (French)

• Hal Foster, Compulsive Beauty, MIT Press, 1993, 344 pp. [63] A deconstructive reading of surrealism; based on author's dissertation. Reviews: Elkins (1994), Genova (1996), O'Brien (1997). (English)
  • translations

• Rosalind Krauss, The Optical Unconscious, MIT Press, 1993, 365 pp. Reviews: Kimball (1993), Carlson (2014). (English)
  • translations

• Alastair Brotchie, Mel Gooding (eds.), A Book of Surrealist Games, Boston: Shambhala, 1993; Boston & London: Shambhala Redstone, 1995, 165 pp. (English)

• Annabelle Winograd, Dada and Surrealist Performance, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, xviii+288 pp. (English)

• Jacqueline Chénieux-Gendron, Françoise Laruelle-Le Roux, Maïté Vienne-Villacampa, Le Surréalisme autour du monde: 1929-1947, Paris: CNRS, 1994, iv+463 pp. [64] (French)

• Martica Sawin, Surrealism in Exile: And the Beginning of the New York School, MIT Press, 1995, 460 pp. [65] (English)

• Michael Löwy, "Walter Benjamin and Surrealism: The Story of a Revolutionary Spell", Radical Philosophy 80, Nov-Dec 1996, pp 17-23. (English)

• Oiseau-tempête: revue de critique sociale, 13 numbers, ed. Barthélémy Schwartz et al., Paris: Ab Irato, 1997-2006. Journal. [66] (French)

• Race Traitor 9: "Surrealism: Revolution Against Whiteness", ed. Franklin Rosemont, Summer 1998, PDF. A series of essays and documents on the struggle of the surrealist movement, both in France and the United States, against the racist ideology of white colonialism. Review: Löwy (ATC). (English)

• Michel Remy, Surrealism in Britain, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999, 404 pp. Review: Glaves-Smith (Art Book). (English)

• Vincent Bounoure, Moments du surréalisme, afterw. Michael Löwy, Paris: L'Harmattan, 1999, 249 pp. (French)

• Miryam Sas, Fault Lines: Cultural Memory and Japanese Surrealism, Stanford University Press, 1999, xvi+250 pp. [67]. Reviews: Hirata (Harvard J Asiatic Studies), Vincent (J Japanese Studies), Swain (Asian Theatre J), Forum for Modern Language Studies, Selland. (English)

• Penelope Rosemont, Surrealist Experiences: 1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights, Chicago: Black Swan Press, 2000, 196 pp. Rosemont's first book of articles and essays. It includes nearly two dozen texts originally published in surrealist journals from 1970 through the 1990s, plus eleven that appear here for the first time. [68] (English)

• Michael Löwy, L'Étoile du matin: surréalisme et marxisme, Paris: Syllepse, 2000, 126 pp. Collected essays. (French)
  • La stella del mattino: surrealismo e marxismo, Bolsena, VT: Massari, 2001, 121 pp. (Italian)
  • A estrel da manhã: surrealismo e marxismo, trans. Eliana Aguiar, Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 2002, 157+[16] pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • A estrela da mañá: surrealismo e marxismo, trans. Xesús González Gómez, Santiago de Compostela: Laiovento, 2005, 133 pp. (Galician)
  • La estrella de la mañana: surrealismo y marxismo, trans. Silvia Guiard, Conchi Benito, and Eugenio Castro, Buenos Aires: El Cielo por Asalto, 2006, 148 pp. (Spanish)
  • Morning Star: Surrealism, Marxism, Anarchism, Situationism, Utopia, intro. Donald LaCoss, University of Texas Press, 2009, xxx+142 pp. (English)
  • Sabah yıldızı: gerçeküstücülek ve marksizm, trans. Aslıhan Aydın and U Uraz Aydın, Istanbul: Versus, 2009, 105 pp. (Turkish)

• Race Traitor 13-14: "Surrealism in the USA: The Complete Contents of the Suppressed Surrealist Issue of Socialist Review", ed. Ron Sakolsky, Dorchester, MA: The New Abolitionists, Summer 2001, 244 pp, PDF. (English)

• Sade/Surreal. Der Marquis de Sade und die erotische Fantasie des Surrealismus in Text und Bild, eds. Tobia Bezzola, Michael Pfister, and Stefan Zweifel, Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2001, 307 pp. Catalogue. (German)

• Lewis Kachur, Displaying the Marvelous: Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, and Surrealist Exhibition Installations, MIT Press, 2001, 288 pp. [69] (English)

• Willard Bohn, The Rise of Surrealism: Cubism, Dada, and the Pursuit of the Marvelous, SUNY Press, 2001, 248 pp. (English)

• Surrealism: Desire Unbound, ed. Jennifer Mundy, Princeton University Press, 2001, 352 pp. Catalogue for exh. held at Tate Modern, London, 20 Sep 2001-1 Jan 2002; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 6 Feb-12 May 2002. Reviews: Mauro (CAA), Knafo (St Gender & Sex), Reed. [70] (English)

• Nemoguće: umetnost nadrealizma, ed. Milanka Todić, Belgrade: Muzej primenjene umetnosti, 2002. Catalogue. (Serbian)

• Henri Béhar (ed.), Le surréalisme dans la presse de gauche (1924-1939), Paris: Méditerranée, 2002, 344 pp. (French)

• Papers of Surrealism, eds. Joanna Pawlik and Silvia Loreti, University of Manchester, since 2003. Journal. (English)

• Gérard Durozoi, Histoire du mouvement surréaliste, Paris: Hazan, 2004. (French)

• Johanna Malt, Obscure Objects of Desire: Surrealism, Fetishism, and Politics, Oxford University Press, 2004. [71] (English)

• Alyce Mahon, Surrealism and the Politics of Eros, 1938-1968, London: Thames & Hudson, 2005, 240 pp. Reviews: Kachur (Art Book), Donkin (J Visual Culture), Conley (French Forum). (English)
  • Surrealismo, eros y politica, 1938-1968, trans. Alejandro Pradera, Madrid: Alianza, 2009, 256 pp. (Spanish)

• Sanja Bahun-Radunovic, "When the Margin Cries: Surrealism in Yugoslavia", RiLUnE 3 (2005), pp 37-52. (English)

• Thomas Mical (ed.), Surrealism and Architecture, Routledge, 2005, 362 pp. Review: Anz (J Arch Edu). (English)

• Surrealism USA, ed. Isabelle Dervaux, New York: National Academy Museum, with Hatje Cantz, 2005, 192 pp. Catalogue. [72] (English)

• Image & Narrative 13: "The Forgotten Surrealists: Belgian Surrealism Since 1924", eds. Patricia Allmer and Hilde Van Gelder, 2005. (English)

• Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DOCUMENTS, eds. Dawn Ades and Simon Baker, London: Hayward Gallery, and MIT Press, 2006, 272 pp. Catalogue. (English)

• Yale French Studies 109: "Surrealism and Its Others", 2006, pp 1-146. [73] (English)

• Michael Richardson, Surrealism and Cinema, Bloomsbury Academic, 2006, 240 pp. (English)

• Vladimír Bakoš, Avantgardistický projekt modernity, Bratislava: VEDA, 2006, 301 pp. (Slovak)

• Patricia Allmer, Hilde Van Gelder (eds.), Collective Inventions: Surrealism in Belgium, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2007, 248 pp. [74] (English)

• Jonathan P. Eburne, Surrealism and the Art of Crime, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. (English)

• Franklin Rosemont, Jacques Vaché and the Roots of Surrealism: Including Vaché's War Letters & Other Writings, Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 2008, viii+388 pp. TOC. (English)

• Penelope Rosemont, Dreams and Everyday Life: André Breton, Surrealism, Rebel Worker, SDS and the Seven Cities of Cibola, Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 2008, 250 pp. [75] (English)

• Jérôme Duwa, Surréalistes et situationnistes, vies parallèles: histoire et documents, pref. Christophe Bourseiller, Paris: Dilecta, 2008, 240 pp. [76] (French)

• Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism, ed. Patricia Allmer, London: Prestel, and Manchester: Manchester Art Gallery, 2009, 280 pp. Catalogue for exh. held Sep 2009-Jan 2010. Curator's talk. Exh. review: Jones (Guardian). (English)

• La subversion des images: surréalisme, photographie, film, eds. Quentin Bajac and Clément Chéroux, Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2009, 480 pp. Catalogue. [77]. Review: Baker (EN). (French)

• Janine Mileaf, Please Touch: Dada and Surrealist Objects After the Readymade, University Press of New England, 2010. [78] (English)

• José Pierre (ed.), Investigating Sex: Surrealist Discussions, afterw. Dawn Ades, Verso, 2011, 240 pp. [79] (English)

• Van dada tot surrealisme: Joodse avant-garde kunstenaars uit Roemenië, 1910-1938 / From Dada to Surrealism: Jewish Avant-Garde Artists from Romania, eds. Radu Stern and Edward van Voolen, Amsterdam: Joods Historisch Museum, 2011, 159 pp. Catalogue. (Dutch)/(English)

• Annette Leddy, Donna Conwell, Farewell to Surrealism: The Dyn Circle in Mexico, Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2012. [80] (English)

• R. Bruce Elder, Dada, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect, Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013, x+765 pp. (English)

• Adam Jolles, The Curatorial Avant-Garde: Surrealism and Exhibition Practice in France, 1925–1941, Penn State University Press, 2013, 288 pp. Review: Forcer (French Stud). [81] (English)

• Ülo Pikkov, "Surrealist Sources of Eastern European Animation Film", Baldic Screen Media Review 1, 2013, pp 28-43. (English)

• Chinghsin Wu, "Reality Within and Without: Surrealism in Japan and China in the Early 1930s", Review of Japanese Culture and Society 26:1, 2016, pp 189-208. [82] (English)

• Gavin Parkinson (ed.), Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comics, Liverpool University Press, 2015, 268 pp. (English)

• David Hopkins (ed.), A Companion to Dada and Surrealism, Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. (English)

• Patricia Allmer (ed.), Intersections: Women Artists/Surrealism/Modernism, Manchester University Press, 2016, 328 pp. [83] (English)

• Art et Liberté: Rupture, War and Surrealism in Egypt (1938-1948), eds. Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, Milan: Skira, 2016, 224 pp. Exh. held at Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2016/2017; Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2017; Kunstsammlung K20, Düsseldorf, 2017; Tate Liverpool, 2017/2018; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2018. (English)
  • translations

• Sam Bardaouil, Surrealism in Egypt: Modernism and the Art and Liberty Group, London: I.B. Tauris. 2017, 354 pp. [84]. Review: Guyer & Singh (LARB). (English)

• Whitney Chadwick, The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism, London: Thames & Hudson, 2017. (English)

• Derek Sayer, Making Trouble: Surrealism and the Human Sciences, Prickly Paradigm Press, 2017, 95 pp. [85]. Review: Baetens (Leonardo). (English)

• Lori Waxman, Keep Walking Intently: The Ambulatory Art of the Surrealists, the Situationist international, and Fluxus, Berlin: Sternberg, 2017, 285 pp. [86] (English)

• Kristoffer Noheden, Surrealism, Cinema, and the Search for a New Myth, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. (English)

• Penelope Rosemont, Don LaCoss, Michael Löwy, Make Love, Not War: Surrealism 1968!, Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 2018, 86 pp. (English)

• Susan Laxton, Surrealism at Play, Duke University Press, 2019, 384 pp. [87] (English)

• Anarcho-Surrealism in Chicago, Ill Will Editions, 2019, 43 pp. [88] (English)

• Penelope Rosemont, Surrealism: Inside the Magnetic Fields, San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2019. (English)

• Kristoffer Noheden, Abigail Susik (eds.), Surrealism and Film after 1945: Absolutely Modern Mysteries, Manchester University Press, 2021, 272 pp. (English)

• Surrealism Beyond Borders, eds. Stephanie D’Alessandro and Matthew Gale, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021, 384 pp. Catalogue. Publisher. (English)

More

• Surrealism on Monoskop Log

• The Chicago Surrealist Group and Black Swan Press bibliography, compiled by Paul Garon

• Kenneth Soehner, "Building an Archive of Global Surrealism. How a special exhibition expanded Watson Library's holdings of international Surrealism", Mar 2022.

Recent retrospective exhibitions

• Dreamers Awake, White Cube, London, Jun-Sep 2017. Explored the enduring influence of Surrealism through the work of more than fifty women artists.

• We are Completely Free. Women Artists and Surrealism, exhibition, Museo Picasso Málaga, Oct 2017-Jan 2018.

• Surrealism Beyond Borders, Met Museum, New York, Oct 2021-Jan 2022; Tate Modern, London, Feb-Aug 2022. Reconsiders the “movement” of Surrealism across boundaries of geography and chronology—and within networks that span Eastern Europe to the Caribbean, Asia to North Africa, and Australia to Latin America.

• Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Apr–Sep 2022; Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Oct 2022–Jan 2023.