📚 Surrealism

Breton’s dream dictatorship: automatism, the uncanny image, and the members expelled for disagreeing.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject surrealism in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Max Ernst	Max Ernst	1956	114
	Manifestes du surréalisme	André Breton	1946	47
	André Masson	Masson, André	1958	26
	De Baudelaire au surréalisme	Marcel Raymond	1933	22
	Histoire du surréalisme	Maurice Nadeau	1945	16
	Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989	Robert Descharnes	1993	16
	From cubism to surrealism in French literature	Georges Édouard Lemaître	1941	15
	Le surréalisme	Yvonne Duplessis	1950	14
	Magritte	Richard Calvocoressi	1961	14
	The architecture of matter	Stephen Edelston Toulmin	1962	14
	What is surrealism?	André Breton	1936	13
	Matta	Roberto Sebastian Matta Echaurren	1963	11
	Histoire naturelle : a portfolio of rubbings	Max Ernst	1926	9
	Literary origins of surrealism	Anna Elizabeth Balakian	1947	9
	Surrealism	Patrick Waldberg	1962	9
	Dali	Dawn Ades	1982	8
	A Short Survey of Surrealism	Gascoyne, David	1935	7
	Age of surrealism	Wallace Fowlie	1950	7
	Surrealist Women	Penelope Rosemont	1998	7
	Surrealism and the Exotic	Louise Tythacott	2003	7
	Philosophie du surréalisme	Ferdinand Alquié	1955	6
	The world of Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968	Calvin Tomkins	1966	6
	René Magritte	René Magritte	1969	6
	Magritte	David Sylvester	1969	6
	Magritte	Suzi Gablik	1970	6
	Malerei des Surrealismus	Uwe M. Schneede	1973	6
	The diary of Frida Kahlo	Frida Kahlo	1995	6
	Surrealism	Michael Richardson	2016	6
	Le surréalisme au cinéma	Adonis Kyrou	1953	5
	Surrealism: the road to the absolute	Anna Elizabeth Balakian	1959	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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