This book would be a good read for those interested in modern art movements and how they challenged the traditional values of the time. It explores the revolutionary nature of Dada and Surrealism, highlighting their focus on the irrational and unconscious. The author also contextualizes the movements within the historical context of World War I and the resulting disillusionment.

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This stimulating introductory survey traces the origins and development of these two roughly parallel revolutionary twentieth-century art movements, exploring the full range of artistic production, including film, photography, collage, painting, graphics and object making. Matthew Gale skilfully places the art within a context of ideas ranging from the disillusionment and questioning of accepted values that resulted from the senseless destruction of World War I to the use of the creative forces of the unconscious to undermine convention.

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