Surrealism is a survey of the twentieth century´s longest lasting and, arguably, most influential art movement. Championed and held together by André Breton for over forty years, Surrealism was France´s major avant-garde artistic tendency from 1924 onwards, rapidly spreading around the globe to become an international phenomenon. During World War II Surrealism´s exiled artists and writers had a major impact on American art and were a primary influence for the Abstract Expressionist generation. The official surrealist movement continued to the end of Bretons life in 1966, and its legacy is still pervasive today. The Works section follows the movement from itsbeginnings in the 1920s up to the 1940s and 1950s. Its six sections trace the themes which predominated at different stages: Chance and Freedom, Poetics of Vision, Elusive Objects , Desire, Delirium and the Infinite Terrains of later Surrealism.