In the years following World War I, a small group of writers, painters, and filmmakers called the Surrealists set out to change the way we perceive the world. In Surreal Lives, Ruth Brandon follows the lives and interactions of such firecracker minds as the movement's didactic "Pope", Andre Breton and the ambitious and manic Salvador Dali, as well as Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Tristan Tzara, Man Ray, Max Ernst, and filmmaker Luis Bunuel. It charts the shifting allegiances, such muses and patrons as Gala Dali and Peggy Guggenheim. Ruth Brandon spins the many stories of Surrealism with wit, energy, and insight, bringing sharp analysis to an eccentric cast of characters whose struggles and achievements came to mirror and define the way the world changed between the wars.
- ISBN10 0802116531
- ISBN13 9780802116536
- Publish Date 1 September 1999 (first published 7 May 1999)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 August 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Avalon Travel Publishing
- Edition American ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 527
- Language English