Have you ever watched anything and thought the world it presented didn't exist in reality, but also you had no idea how to describe where it actually exists? That's how I feel about surrealism in film ...

Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...

A blockbuster at the Fundación MAPFRE gives deserved attention to Surrealist women such as Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning. What if Surrealism had altogether escaped the grip of André Breton?

Simulation as hysterical muse -- From psychological medicine to surrealism -- surrealism and the Salpêtrière legacy -- Artist-sorcerers : mimicry, magic and hysteria -- A theatre of hysteria : ...

Jean-Claude Silbermann joined André Breton’s acolytes at 18. Now 90, he’s showing paintings at Independent, the art fair, and says Surrealism is “an attitude toward the world.” Jean-Claude Silbermann ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Surrealism is an avant-garde art and literary movement that began in Paris in the ...