In 1936, Salvador Dalí made a window display for Bonwit Teller department store and he wasn’t the only Surrealist to make a storefront appearance; in 1945, Marcel Duchamp arranged copies of a book by ...

The Surrealists’ attempt to work with the French Communist Party during this period, however, was an unambiguous flop. Breton’s belief in untrammeled freedom and transforming thought clashed ...