A Companion to Dada and Surrealism

This excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism blends expert synthesis of the latest scholarship with completely new research, offering historical coverage as well as in-depth discussion of thematic areas ranging from criminality to gender.

• This book provides an excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism from some of the finest established and up-and-coming scholars in the field

• Offers historical coverage as well as in–depth discussion of thematic areas ranging from criminality to gender

• One of the first studies to produce global coverage of the two movements, it also includes a section dealing with the critical and cultural aftermath of Dada and Surrealism in the later twentieth century

• Dada and Surrealism are arguably the most popular areas of modern art, both in the academic and public spheres

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