The Surrealist book : tomorrow lives in mirrors : the Helen and Sam Zell Collection / Starr Figura, Jodi Hauptman, with Kolleen Ku and Annie Wilker.

New York : The Museum of Modern Art, 2026.

270 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

A book bound with shards of shattered glass. A manifesto enshrined in polished metal. Love poems seamlessly merging with solarized photographs. For artists and writers of the Surrealist movement, the book was a perfect vehicle for subversive experimentation and the promotion of Surrealism’s revolutionary tenets. Working collaboratively to unlock the unconscious, they transformed the bound volume into a provocative new art form, an enchanted portal to the unexpected, the irrational, and the marvelous.The Surrealist Book features the work of Surrealism’s most fascinating figures, including André Breton, Claude Cahun, Salvador Dalí, Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, Toyen, and Unica Zürn. It traces the myriad roles of Surrealist books from their foundational impact in the 1920s, through their convention-defying influence in the 1930s and ’40s, to the persistent presence of a Surrealist sensibility in volumes produced well into the 1950s and ’60s.

9781633451810 (hardback)
163345181X

Surrealism.
Art, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Artists' books.
Surréalisme.
Art 20e siècle Expositions.
Livres d'artistes.
Surrealist.
bookworks.

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Figura, Starr.
Hauptman, Jodi.
Ku, Kolleen
Wilker, Annie
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Location: Library main 332210
Call No.: 332210
Copy: 1
Status: Available