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Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, or in writing, or by any other manner, the real functioning of thought. Dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation.
The Surrealist movement mainly originated in the Dada movement, which primarily involved visual arts, literature, theatre and graphic design; and was characterized by deliberate irrationality, cynicism, randomness, and the rejection of the prevailing standards in art at that time. While the movement's most important center was Paris, it spread throughout Europe and to North America, Japan and the Caribbean during the course of the 1920's, 30s and 40s, by the 1960s to Africa, South America and much of Asia, and by the 1980s to Australia. There have even been some manifestations of surrealism in Russia and China. Some historians mark the end of the movement at World War II, some with the death of......

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