Surrealism itself, however rooted in the popular imagination as an art world freak show, arrived with a very specific origin: the 1924 publication of the “Surrealist Manifesto” by French poet ...

In art history’s ongoing reassessment of both Surrealism and women artists, there has been new attention lavished on figures such as Dorothea Tanning, Leonor Fini, Remedios Varo, Leonora ...