Surrealism is alive and, well, in Chicago .
The cover and frontispiece both offer color illustrations, but numerous black and white reproduction are liberally supplied throughout the book. A 'textbook' precis may be in order, if only as a foil. After Dada waned about 1922, French writer, Andre Breton, borrowing from the poet Apollinaire took up the torch and crystallized Surrealism as writing or visual art which captured the 'true,' often analogical workings of thought. Surrealism, a la Breton made strong appeal to Automatism, a surrendering to free impulse which, it was thought, would allow inner functions to express their essential workings. With no inhibitions or restraints, Surrealism often found common cause with leftists, free-thinkers, anarchists.