Title: Dada and surrealist art
Authors: Rubin, William, 1927-2006.
Publisher: H. N. Abrams
Year: 1968
Subjects: Dadaism.; Surrealism.
Contents: pt. 1. Dada: The Dada spirit -- The Dada personality -- Dada and art -- A post-cubist morphology -- The paintings of Marcel Duchamp -- Duchamp beyond painting -- The paintings of Francis Picabia -- Dada in New York; Picabia, Duchamp, and Man Ray -- The Cabaret Voltaire and Zurich Dada -- Jean Arp; the Dada years -- Berlin Dada and the beginnings of the movement in Germany -- dadamax Ernst in Cologne -- Kurt Schwitters in Hanover -- pt. 2. The background of surrealist painting: From Dada to surrealism in Paris -- The problem of fantasy art -- Moreau -- Redon -- Henri Rousseau -- Seurat and Gauguin -- De Chirico -- The proto-surrealism of Max Ernst (1921-24) -- pt. 3. The heroic period of surrealist painting (1924-29): The affiliation of the painters -- Joan Miro (1917-29) -- Andre Masson (1923-29) -- Max Ernst (1925-29) -- The resurgence of illusionism; Tanguy and Magritte -- pt. 4. The surrealism of the thirties: Crisis redirection in the movement -- Salvadore Dali -- Surrealist sculpture; Giacometti, Arp, and Ernst -- Surrealist objects -- Picasso and surrealism -- The new adherents and pioneers during the thirties -- pt. 5. Surrealism in exile: An immigrant movement -- Matta -- Other surrealist painters in exile -- Arshile Gorky; surrealism and the new American painting -- Epilogue -- Chronology.