This title features dreamlike, fantastic imagery. With Salvador Dali as its figurehead, the great ship of Surrealism traversed the wild and turbulent sea of the Roaring Twenties, its sails full of winds blown by Sigmund Freud and Andre Breton. With their mysterious, dreamlike, fantastic imagery, the Surrealists made sensational waves in the art world. The influence of artists such as Dali, Bunuel, Ernst, and Magritte on 20th century film, theatre, literature, art theory - even advertising - is inestimable.

About the Author

Cathrin Klingsohr-Leroy (b. 1958) studied art-history, archaeology and German literature in Regensburg, Bonn and Paris and took her doctorate with a dissertation on "The artist-portrait during the French Grand Siecle". Since 1994 she has been Curator of the Fritz Winter Foundation at the Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen in Munich. At exhibitions and in publications she is chiefly concerned with the art of the 20th century, and has published works on Lyonel Feininger, Lovis Corinth, Franz Marc, the "Blauer Reiter" and in particular, Paul Klee.