Dreamworld
Surrealism at 100
$74.88
- Hardcover
308 pages
- Release Date
11 February 2026
Summary
A lively history of Surrealism, from its beginnings in Paris to its expansion into an international artistic movement
Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100 celebrates the centennial of André Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism (1924), which launched one of the essential currents of twentieth-century thought and culture. Matthew Affron investigates how artists made good on Surrealism’s promise of a revolution in consciousness by means of the unbridled imaginatio…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780876333082 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0876333080 |
| Author: | Matthew Affron |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Imprint: | Yale University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 308 |
| Release Date: | 11 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 1.66kg |
| Dimensions: | 267mm x 229mm |
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“Makes both the often wild multiplicity of Surrealism comprehensible—even coherent—and the grand spectacle of Surrealism exhilarating.”—Jonathan Fineberg, Brooklyn RailLonglisted in Publishers Weekly’s Fall 2025 Preview
About The Author
Matthew Affron
Matthew Affron is the Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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