Surrealism / Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy, Uta Grosenick, (ed.)

A new declaration of the rights of man -- Concrete sculpture / Hans Arp -- The doll / Hans Bellmer -- The image as produced by automatic writing / Brassaï -- Mystery and melancholy of a street ; The disquieting muses / Giorgio de Chirico -- The enigma of desire, my mother, my mother, my mother ; The persistence of memory ; Soft construction with boiled beans (Premonition of Civil War) ; Giraffe on fire ; Dream caused by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate, a second before waking up / Salvador Dalí -- Dawn over the city / Paul Delvaux -- Approaching puberty or The pleiades ; The elephant of Celebes ; Loplop presents a flower or Anthropomorphic figure with shell flower ; The king playing with the queen / Max Ernst -- Man and woman / Alberto Giacometti -- Room perspective with inhabitants, 1921, 24 / Paul Klee -- The jungle / Wilfredo Lam -- The key to dreams ; The door to freedom ; Time transfixed ; The empire of lights / René Magritte -- The villagers / André Masson -- Year 44 / Matta -- Stars in the sexual organs of snails ; Collage ; Woman / Joan Miró -- Fur breakfast / Meret Oppenheim -- Composition with glove ; Woman in a red armchair ; Corrida ; Woman with foliage / Pablo Picasso -- Le violon d'Ingres / Man Ray -- The dark garden ; Day of slowness / Yves Tanguy.

Surrealism is a style in the visual arts and modern literature which appeared in Paris after the First World War. The Surrealists sought to eliminate logic along with the boundaries between the Normal and the Fantastical, in order to create a better world through free associative play, using the forces of the subconscious. Their pictures are characterized by a spatial, material, non-abstract manner of painting with an almost photographic sharpness of detail, and they are more topical now than ever before.

Translated from the German to English.