Why Surrealism Matters: by Mark Polizzotti An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why the movement continues to resonate An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonate “Mr. Polizzotti carefully balances the movement’s aspirations and attainments against its flaws and contradictions, hoping to recuperate Surrealism’s ‘critical and imaginative essence’ for the present. . . . The best concise account of the movement available.”—Michael Saler, Wall Street Journal Selected by Art in America as an “Essential Book About Surrealism” Why does Surrealism continue to fascinate us a century after André Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism?