For your viewing pleasure…

…we’d like to show you our current stock highlights. But first, let us say a few words about the movement that produced them, and the people who wrote and illustrated them.

Surrealism was a literary and artistic movement born in post World-War I France. It was driven by a small and intimate group, led by André Breton, which included artists and writers such as Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Louis Aragon, Man Ray, Paul Eluard, André Masson, Alberto Giacometti, Roland Penrose, Lee Miller, Salvador Dalí and many others. It was rooted in Tzara’s Dada movement, Freudian psychoanalysis, and a passionate belief in the power of dreams, love, desire and most of all the ability of art to change the world we live in. Many Surrealist images have now entered our everyday visual vocabulary, but many more remain to be discovered. Almost all the Surrealist artists illustrated books, some written by fellow Surrealists, others by some of the most exciting authors and thinkers of the 20th century.
And so from this intellectual hothouse, we’ve hand-picked for you a tip-top team of writers and poets, illustrators and painters, savants and charlatans (well, not so many of those…); they made some of our favourite books. We hope they’ll soon be your favourites too. Use the buttons on the left to check them out…