In Montparnasse by Sue Roe

Describes with plenty of colour how surrealism from Rene Magrittes bowler hats to Salvador Dalis watches was born and developed The Times During the 1920s in the Parisian neighbourhood of Montparnasse a unique flowering of avantgarde artistic creativity became the cradle of Dada and Surrealism. In this crowd biography Sue Roe tells the story from Duchamp to Dali via Man Ray and Max Ernst of the salons and cafes alliances and feuds love affairs and scandals successes and suicides of one of t Paperback softback