Surrealism and US: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940

$55.00 at de Young Museum.

How modern and contemporary artists across the African and Caribbean diasporas transformed European Surrealism into a tool for Black expression.On the centennial anniversary of André Breton’s first Surrealist Manifesto, Surrealism and Us shines new light on how Surrealism was consumed and transformed in the Caribbean and the United States. It brings together more than 50 works from the 1940s to the present that convey how Caribbean and African diasporic artists reclaimed a European avant-garde for their own…