Farewell to Surrealism: The Dyn Circle in Mexico

$20.00 at The Getty Museum.

Annette Leddy and Donna Conwell  Introduction by Dawn Ades “Farewell to Surrealism” is the title of a 1943 essay by Austrian artist-critic Wolfgang Paalen published in the inaugural issue of the journal Dyn. The journal was founded by Paalen and an international group of writers and artists taking refuge in Mexico City during World War II. Several of them had been part of André Breton’s Parisian surrealist circle in the 1930s. When they arrived in Mexico, they were still proponents of surrealism. Two years…