Paul Keegan

The triumph of surrealism

Paul Keegan celebrates the 100th anniversary of one of the most successful –isms of all

Clockwise from top-left: Maxime Alexandre, Aragon, Breton, Bunuel, Jean Caupenne, Éluard, Marcel Fourrier, Magritte, Albert Valentin, André Thirion, Tanguy, Georges Sadoul, Paul Nougé, Camille Goemans, Ernst, Dali. The montage – Magritte’s‘I can’t see the (woman) hidden in the forest’, surrounded by Man Ray photographs – was published in the final issue of the Surrealist Revolution magazine in 1929. © Archives Charmet / Bridgeman Images / © Man Ray 2015 Trust / DACS, London 2024 
issue 19 October 2024
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