Through an examination of Surrealist photographs, objects, exhibitions, activities, and writings, the essays in Twilight Visions, the beautifully illustrated companion volume to the exhibition of the same name, portray the French capital as a city in the process of metamorphosis-in a kind of twilight state. The Bureau of Surrealist Research, the major Surrealist exhibitions, and the photographs of Paris by Brassai, Andre Kertesz, Ilse Bing, Germaine Krull, and Man Ray, among others, all reflect the tumultuous social and cultural transformations occurring in Paris in the 1920s and 30s. With a leading essays by Therese Lichtenstein, Julia Kelly, Colin Jones, and Whitney Chadwick, this absorbing volume considers the social, aesthetic, and political stances of the Surrealists as they probed hidden aspects of the commonplace and blurred the boundaries between dreams and reality, subjectivity and objectivity.

FOREWORD BY SUSAN H, EDWARDS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION BY THERESE LICHTENSTEIN

DARKLY LIT STREETS

THE nITY IN TWILIGHT

THERESE LICHTENSTEIN

WINDOWS ON THE CITY

THE BUREAU OF SURREALIST RESEARCH

JULIA KELLY

MARVELOUS ENCOUNTERS

SURREALIST EXHIBITIONS, PARISIAN EXPOSITIONS

COLIN JONES

PORTRAITS AFTER-HOURS

MYTHIC WOMAN/REAL WOMEN:EMBODYING DESIRE IN 1938

WHITNEY CHADWICK

SURREAL FIGURES

CONTRIBUTORS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

INDEX