American attitudes and uses of surrealism have been more pragmatic. Painters such as Gerome Kamrowski and William Baziotes rejected surrealism’s radical politics but played with images ...

Surrealism was rapidly adopted by artists ... By the later 1920s a like-minded community had blossomed to include European and North American painters (including Max Ernst and René Magritte ...

Cinema Guild, the New York-based distributor of world cinema, has acquired the North American distribution ... as "a ...