Although the term “surrealism” often conjures perplexing visual imagery — Salvador Dalí’s melting clocks, René Magritte’s raining men, Frida Kahlo’s antlered head atop The Wounded Deer — the genre actually originated as a literary movement in early 20th-century Europe. Taking cues from both Sigmund Freud’s dream studies and Karl Marx’s political theories, surrealism centered on “automatic […]
