Surrealism, the art movement that gave us disembodied eyeballs, melting clocks and animals with mismatched parts, was born in 1924 when the French poet André Breton published a treatise decrying ...

“If we in the twenty-first century are to access Surrealism meaningfully,” he writes, “it will not be by re-creating the old debates or melting still more watches.” ...

Their tendency toward surrealism, however, is not a reinterpretation of melting clocks or green apples for heads. Instead, it is a subtle, intuitive practice, building upon traditions of a past ...

Given Surrealist art's fantastic forms – from Salvador Dalí's melting pocket watches and lobster telephone to Méret Oppenheim's furry cup and saucer – it's easy to dismiss or trivialise ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Surrealism, the movement that gave us disembodied eyeballs, melting clocks and lobster phones ...

With his whiplash mustache, googly eyes and collaborators like Alfred Hitchcock, he became the face of surrealism — but also an overexposed media clown and one-note peddler of melting clocks ...