The Surrealism archive

Previous posts about Surrealist art, film, writing, etc.

• “Through the eyes of poets”: View magazine

• The 7 Spectral Perils of Dorothea Tanning

• Hello Dali! revisited

• Minotaure, 1933–1939

• The art of Jean Ransy, 1910–1991

• Enfantômastic!

• Minotaur Ballet – Swansea Surreal

• An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting

• Adam 2, a film by Jan Lenica

• Max Ernst, estampes et livres illustrés

• Ballard’s sextet

• Art on film: Crack-Up

• More Surrealist Subversion

• Man with a Newspaper

• Valentine Hugo’s Contes Bizarres

• Phosphor: A Surrealist Luminescence

• Bugs Bunny meets Fantômas in the Aquarium of Love

• The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine

• Arsenal: Surrealist Subversion

• Leonora Carrington’s Surrealist Survival Kit

• Forbidden reproductions

• Ragnar von Holten’s Maldoror

• Edward James: Builder of Dreams

• Harry O. Morris’s Maldoror

• First Papers of Surrealism, 1942

• The Great Transparent Ones

• Remedios Varo, 1967

• Covering Maldoror

• Chirico by Tanaami and Aihara

• Into the Midnight Underground

• Echoes of de Chirico

• René Magritte, Cinéaste

• Miró: Theatre of Dreams

• The Magic Art of Jan Svankmajer

• The Midnight Parasites by Yoji Kuri

• Fuzz Against Junk & The Hero Maker

• Art on film: Je t’aime, Je t’aime

• Magritte: The False Mirror

• Magritte, ou la lecon de chose

• Michel Henricot, 1936–2022

• Study II (Hallucinations) by Peter Weiss

• Short films by Gérald Frydman

• Covers for Beyond Fantasy Fiction

• Jorgen Boberg’s Teresas

• Paul Delvaux ou les Femmes Défendues

• Max Ernst by Peter Schamoni

• The Fame and Shame of Salvador Dalí

• Pynchon and Varo

• Leonora Carrington and the House of Fear

• Figures of Mortality: Lawrence versus Dalí

• Man Ray and the Marquis

• Raoul Servais: Courts-Métrages

• Kenneth Anger’s Maldoror

• Svankmajer’s cats

• The Execution of the Testament of the Marquis de Sade by Jean Benoît

• Être Dieu: Dalí versus Wakhévitch

• Chance encounters on the dissecting table

• Scarabus, a film by Gérald Frydman

• Topsychopor by Roland Topor

• Remedios Varo’s recipe for erotic dreams

• The nightingale echo

• Max Ernst’s favourites

• Viewing View

• The Marvellous

• Hamfat Asar, a film by Lawrence Jordan

• Cornell’s Constellations

• The poster art of Josef Vyletal

• There Lived Kozyavin

• Picturing Vermilion Sands

• Jan Svankmajer: The Animator of Prague

• Fantasmagie

• The Witch’s Cradle by Maya Deren

• Salvador Dalí’s Maze

• The art of Nick Hyde, 1943–2018

• Leonor Fini

• The art of Manfred Sillner

• Santiago Caruso’s Maldoror

• Nights as Day, Days as Night by Michel Leiris

• Essex House book covers

• Jan Svankmajer, Director

• Cosmic eggs

• Collagescapes

• Trois peintres visionnaires, a film by Fabienne Strouvé

• Ernst Fuchs, 1977

• Ernst Fuchs, 1930–2015

• The art of Aleksandr Kosteckij

• Hell, a film by Rein Raamat

• Phantom, a film by Toshio Matsumoto

• Temptations

• The art of Robin Ironside, 1912–1965

• Falk-Ulrich Rogner album covers

• Carabosse, a film by Lawrence Jordan

• Max Ernst album covers

• Papillons de Nuit, a film by Raoul Servais

• Leonor Fini: comment vivre sans chat

• Maximiliana oder die widerrechtliche Ausübung der Astronomie

• Jacques Houplain’s Maldoror

• Hans Bellmer’s Maldoror

• The art of Fabrizio Clerici, 1913–1993

• René Magritte album covers

• Monsieur René Magritte, a film by Adrian Maben

• George Melly’s Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist

• L’Amour by Didier Moreau

• The Beard, a film by Ian Emes

• More chimeras

• The Art of Tripping, a documentary by Storm Thorgerson

• Les Chants de Maldoror by Shuji Terayama

• 8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements

• Max and Dorothea

• The art of James Gleeson, 1915–2008

• Two sides of Liska

• Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

• Paul Delvaux: The Sleepwalker of Saint-Idesbald

• The Magic Toyshop

• Giger’s Necronomicon

• Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

• The art of Gregorio Prieto, 1897–1992

• Labirynt by Jan Lenica

• Raymond Bertrand paintings

• Dalí in New York

• The Fourth Dimension

• Un Chien Andalou

• The Secret Life of Edward James

• Jacques Brissot’s Hay Wain

• Dorothea Tanning, 1910–2012

• Palais Idéal panoramas

• Las Pozas panoramas

• Joseph Cornell, 1967

• Dreams That Money Can Buy

• Magritte’s Maldoror

• René Magritte by David Wheatley

• La femme 100 têtes by Eric Duvivier

• Dalí’s discography

• The art of Jindrich Styrsky, 1899–1942

• Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dalí

• Initiations in the Abyss: A Surrealist Apocalypse

• Mongolian impressions

• The art of Jindrich Pilecek, 1944–2002

• The art of Leonidas Kryvosej

• Les Temps Morts by René Laloux

• The art of Johfra Bosschart, 1919–1998

• Hello Dali!

• The art of Aloys Zötl, 1803–1887

• Dalí’s Salomé

• Leonora Carrington, 1917–2011

• In the Land of Retinal Delights

• The Public Voice by Lejf Marcussen

• Vultures Await

• The art of Carel Willink, 1900–1983

• The art of Joan Ponç, 1927–1984

• Scenes from a carriage

• Frans De Geetere’s illustrated Maldoror

• Design as virus 13: Tsunehisa Kimura

• Yuri Yakovenko bookplates

• The art of Ran Akiyoshi, 1922–1982

• Marsi Paribatra: the Royal Surrealist

• Monsieur Fantômas by Ernst Moerman

• The art of Michael Hutter

• Repin and Ljuba

• Dorothea Tanning: Early Designs for the Stage

• The art of Jim Leon, 1938–2002

• Surrealist echoes

• Dalí in Wonderland

• Max (The Birdman) Ernst

• The Robing of The Birds

• Ballard and the painters

• JG Ballard, 1930–2009

• The art of Mati Klarwein, 1932–2002

• Return to Las Pozas

• Buchinger’s Boot Marionettes

• Maldoror illustrated

• The world of dreams

• Harpya by Raoul Servais

• The art of Leonor Fini, 1907–1996

• Entr’acte by René Clair

• Dirty Dalí

• The art of Julie Heffernan

• Judex, from Feuillade to Franju

• Impressions de la Haute Mongolie revisited

• Jan Svankmajer: The Complete Short Films

• Short films by Walerian Borowczyk

• Rose Hobart by Joseph Cornell

• Fantastic art from Pan Books

• Penguin Surrealism

• The art of Jean Benoît

• The art of Bertrand

• Meshes of the Afternoon by Maya Deren

• The art of José Hernández

• The art of Sergei Aparin

• The art of Nicola Verlato

• The art of Stephen Aldrich

• The art of Rudolf Hausner, 1914–1995

• Taxandria, or Raoul Servais meets Paul Delvaux

• The Codex Seraphinianus

• The art of Yves Doaré

• Surrealist women

• Leonora Carrington

• Salvador Dalí’s apocalyptic happening

• Two American paintings

• The art of Thomas Häfner, 1928–1985

• The art of Jean Louis Ricaud

• The art of Ernst Fuchs

• Las Pozas and Edward James

• View: The Modern Magazine

• Surrealist cartomancy

• Impressions de la Haute Mongolie