A look at the highly original - though less well-known works - of the Italian Surrealists active from the 1940s onwards.
Most of the works reproduced were donated by Arturo Schwarz, critic, gallery-owner, publisher and collector, who promoted and diffused the ideas of Breton, Eluard, and Char during the 1950s and 60s.
The catalogue – a “dossier” like the exhibition to which it refers – presents the works of a number of artists who, free to express themselves in the more favourable post-war climate, experimented with the surrealist language, producing singular results.