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Description of  Radical Dreams: Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance (Refiguring Modernism)

Surrealism is widely thought of as an artistic movement that flourished in Europe between the two world wars. However, during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, diverse radical affinity groups, underground subcultures, and student protest movements proclaimed their connections to surrealism. Radical Dreams argues that surrealism was more than an avant-garde art movement it was a living current of anti-authoritarian resistance. Read more