International cultural movement that began in the early 1920s

Dali, science and surrealism : sperm donation / the sound of cells.

Subversive spaces : surrealism + contemporary art.

1 video cassette (VHS) (95 min.) : sound, colour, PAL

Surrealism and science: the weird world of Jean Painleve.

viii, 294 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 cm

Surrealism, art, and modern science : relativity, quantum mechanics, epistemology / Gavin Parkinson.

xiii, 264 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

André Breton : psychiatry in the service of Surrealism, 1914-1937 / by Tatiana Spinari-Pollalis.

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Dali, science and surrealism : sperm donation / the sound of cells.

Subversive spaces : surrealism + contemporary art.

Surrealism and science: the weird world of Jean Painleve.

Surrealism, art, and modern science : relativity, quantum mechanics, epistemology / Gavin Parkinson.

André Breton : psychiatry in the service of Surrealism, 1914-1937 / by Tatiana Spinari-Pollalis.