Surrealist Art

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Menil Collection Houston, TX

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) NY

Musée Magritte Brussels, Belgium

Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) London
Excellent collection portal illustrating how Surrealist imagery and ideas inspired designers in the fields of photography, theatre, furniture, fashion, textiles, ceramics and graphic design, and includes work by Jean Cocteau, Man Ray and Salvador Dalí among other leading Surrealists.

California State University, Northridge 
Digital version of important Surrealist journal, Le Surréalisme au service de la révolution, under the direction of Andre Breton. 

Centre Pompidou Paris FR
Pedagogical portal allows exploration of the origins of surrealism, artists, bibliography and glossary. 

Getty Research Institute Dada & Surrealism 
Surrealism and Dada are one of the Getty's most notable and focused collections. Particularly well-represented are the international nodes of Surrealism in Belgium, Latin America, and Japan.

MoMA Learning / Surrealism

Luis Buñuel, et al. Un Chien Andalou. Transflux Films, 2004
Richter Library DVD  U523 .B868  

Cocteau, et al. Belle Et La bête = Beauty and the Beast. Newly restored special édition. ed., Criterion Collection, 2003.
Richter Library DVD B438 .C638 

Note: Many of the databases and/or article links referenced in this guide require CaneID authentication through the the UM Library system unless denoted by the "open access" symbol. 

Ades, Dawn; Gale, Matthew. Surrealism. Oxford Art Online. 2003. 

Voorhies, James. Surrealism. In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000.

Surrealism Today 
Online curated list of the best contemporary surrealism, fantastic, visionary, psychedelic, lowbrow, and strange art and artists. 

Alexander Street Video

ARTstor

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of cience)

Oxford Art 

Worldcat Online Catalog

Aspley, Keith. Historical Dictionary of Surrealism. Scarecrow Press, 2010.

Brodskai͡a, N. V. Surrealism. Parkstone International, 2018.

Fischer, Lucy, and ProQuest. Cinemagritte : René Magritte within the Frame of Film History, Theory, and Practice. Wayne State University Press, 2019.

Hopkins, David. A Companion to Dada and Surrealism. Wiley Blackwell, 2016.

Lowenstein, Adam. Dreaming of Cinema Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media. Columbia University Press, 2015.

Mical, Thomas. Surrealism and Architecture. Routledge, 2005.

Richardson, Michael. Surrealism and Cinema. Berg Publishers, 2006.

Roe, Sue. In Montparnasse : the Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali. Penguin Press, 2019.