David Gascoyne s classic text of 1935 was the first comprehensive work on Surrealism to be published in English. Gascoyne s membership of the Surrealist movement and his association with its leading members - among them Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Max Ernst and Salvador Dali - placed him in an ideal position to witness and record the development and significance of its foremost artists and writers. "A Short Survey of Surrealism" is not merely a history of the birth and growth of the movement but also a thorough analysis of the main ideas associated with it."

Born in Buenos Aires in 1899 but largely working and living in Britain and Europe, Eileen Agar was an artist who throughout her long career synthesized elements of the two main artistic movements of the twentieth-century: cubism and surrealism. In this first full account of Agar's complete works--which include paintings, collages, photographs, and objects--Michel Remy offers a rich exploration of an important artist who was deeply entrenched in some of the most innovative scenes of the twentieth-century art world.

Drawing on archival research as well as personal conversations with Agar,...