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The 167 pages that link to Surrealism, each with the reason it gives.

• David CronenbergRelated: Cronenberg’s dreamlike imagery and bodily impossibilities sometimes invite comparison with surrealist art.

• European avant-gardeBroader topic: Surrealists extended formal experiment toward the transformation of thought and perception.

• Generation of '27Related: Surrealism supplied several members with techniques for disrupting ordinary poetic logic.

• Joan MiróRelated: Its exploration of the unconscious helped shape Miró’s inventive imagery.

• Neo-DadaCompared with: Neo-Dada’s found-object practice recalls Surrealist assemblage but emphasizes ordinary life and artistic conventions.

• Paris in the 1920sRelated: The movement emerged in Paris during the decade and extended the city’s avant-garde ferment.

• Paul KleeRelated: Klee’s playful imagery and strange transformations often meet surrealist concerns.

• Staged photographyRelated: Staged images can use uncanny arrangements to make ordinary settings feel dreamlike.

• Symbolism in ArtCompared with: Surrealist images can resemble symbolic puzzles, though their meanings need not follow stable conventions.

• Tex AveryRelated: Avery’s cartoons often let absurd transformations and impossible events replace realistic cause and effect.

• Theatre of CrueltyRelated: Artaud's early involvement with the movement shaped his challenge to conventional theatre.

• Dream narrativeNarrower topic: Dream narratives share its use of irrational juxtapositions, though they are a narrative form rather than a movement.

• Henri LefebvreRelated: Its challenge to ordinary experience echoed Lefebvre’s interest in transforming everyday life.

• John AshberyRelated: Surrealist techniques help explain the abrupt associations in Ashbery’s poems.

• Lee KrasnerRelated: Surrealist automatism offered techniques Krasner adapted while developing an independent abstract language.

• OulipoCompared with: Oulipo shared avant-garde ambitions but favored deliberate rules over psychic automatism.

• Paul ÉluardNarrower topic: Éluard’s early poetry and collaborations developed within this movement.

• Surreal humorNarrower topic: The movement’s dream logic supplies a broader artistic framework for surreal comic techniques.

• Tristan TzaraCompared with: Surrealism emerged from conflicts in the Paris Dada circle that included Tzara and Breton.

• Un Chien AndalouNarrower topic: The film emerged from surrealism's interest in dreams, chance, and irrational association.

• Dream imageryRelated: Surrealist artists made dreamlike transformations central to their visual practice.

• FrottageNarrower topic: Ernst introduced frottage within Surrealism as a way to provoke unexpected images.

• Isamu NoguchiRelated: Surrealist ideas informed Noguchi’s early encounters with abstraction and biomorphic forms.

• Jacques PrévertRelated: Surrealist habits inform his startling juxtapositions and transformations of ordinary scenes.

• Psychedelic artRelated: Its dreamlike imagery offers a precedent for visions and transformed realities.

• René MagritteNarrower topic: Magritte adapted Surrealism’s disruptions while often painting with unusually clear, controlled realism.

• San Francisco RenaissanceRelated: Surrealist methods informed the movement's use of myth, dream, and associative leaps.

• Surrealist cinemaNarrower topic: Surrealist cinema adapts the movement’s aims to moving images and film technique.

• Tarsila do AmaralCompared with: Her dreamlike landscapes invite comparison, though her work was not simply part of Surrealism.

• The Elephant ManCompared with: The film’s realism contrasts with the dreamlike imagery Lynch later made central to his work.

• Aesthetic TheoryRelated: Adorno’s criticism of surrealism tests whether shock can escape established artistic and social conventions.

• Elsa SchiaparelliRelated: Its visual logic supplied motifs and strategies for her garments.

• EraserheadNarrower topic: The film’s unexplained transformations and dreamlike logic draw on surrealist methods.

• Eugène IonescoRelated: Surrealist freedom from ordinary logic helps explain Ionesco’s dreamlike stage transformations.

• Georges BatailleNarrower topic: Bataille emerged amid surrealism but resisted its leadership and developed a darker account of material life.

• Gustave MoreauRelated: Surrealists found precedent in Moreau’s dreamlike imagery, although he did not belong to their movement.

• Henri RousseauRelated: Surrealists later valued the uncanny, dreamlike atmosphere of Rousseau’s invented scenes.

• J. G. BallardRelated: Ballard’s unsettling images and associative methods overlap with surrealism without making his fiction part of that movement.

• Jean PaulhanCompared with: Surrealist attacks on established language sharpened the problem Paulhan explored: whether writing can escape convention.

• Leonora CarringtonNarrower topic: Carrington emerged within Surrealism but developed a distinct mythology and perspective on gender.

• Marquis de SadeRelated: Surrealists celebrated de Sade as an uncompromising challenger of moral and cultural restraints.

• PsychogeographyRelated: Surrealist chance and exploration influenced the avant-garde practices from which psychogeography developed.

• Raymond QueneauRelated: Queneau joined the Surrealists before breaking with André Breton and pursuing different literary methods.

• Sam ShepardRelated: Shepard’s plays often let dream logic intrude on realistic characters and settings.

• The Persistence of MemoryNarrower topic: The painting’s impossible transformations exemplify Surrealist imagery.

• Alejandro González IñárrituCompared with: Bardo draws on dreamlike imagery while remaining tied to autobiographical memory, unlike surrealism's broader artistic program.

• Alfred JarryRelated: Surrealists embraced Jarry’s irreverence and his attack on conventional artistic order.

• ButohRelated: Butoh's grotesque transformations can resemble surrealism's disruptions of familiar bodily reality.

• Edith SitwellCompared with: Its broader movement differs from Sitwell’s sound-driven, often satirical experiments.

• Giorgio de ChiricoNarrower topic: Surrealists drew on de Chirico’s uncanny juxtapositions and deserted urban spaces.