La Lectura has access to one of the lesser-known portraits of Dalí, created by Man Ray in 1936 and that has remained hidden ...

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The Persistence of Memory(La persistencia de la memoria) (1931) is a trifecta of superlatives: Surrealism's most famous ...

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Surrealism through Its Journals reminds us that the movement began with, and cannot be understood without, the written word.

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First, it's an art movement, started by Andre Breton, that seeks to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind.

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