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Surrealism's subversive enemy within; The Hayward Gallery's new exhibition promises startling revelations but they fizzle out in the first room.

From: The Evening Standard (London, England)  |  Date: 5/19/2006

Byline: BRIAN SEWELL

THERE is more to Surrealism than Salvador Dalc, though it was he who made Surrealist art approachable, acceptable and enjoyable, removed it from a controlling clique of theorists and brought it into the bright lights and broad acres of popular imagery.

The "Pope" of Surrealism was Andre Breton, not a painter, not a sculptor, but a poet and cod philosopher; the movement's guiding ideologue, the writer of its manifestos, its chief moral and executive ...

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