“Have you seen the Egyptian Museum? Much of pharaonic art is surrealist,” wrote Kamel el Telmissany, an Egyptian surrealist artist closely associated with the Cairo-based Art and Liberty Group, in a ...
Coinciding with the centenary of the Surrealist Manifesto, ‘The Traumatic Surreal’ also critiques the sexist leanings of surrealist art: eroticising women and infantilising them, too. In 1924, poet ...