This volume brings the complex networks that fostered and sustained surrealism in
North America into academic focus. Who ¿ among collectors, critics, dealers,
galleries, and other kinds of mediating agents ¿ supported the artists in the
surrealist orbit, in what ways, and why? What more can be learned about highprofile
collectors such as the de Menils in Houston or Peggy Guggenheim in New York?
Compared to their peers in Europe, did artists in the United States use similarly
spectacular strategies of publicity and mediation? In what networks did the
commercial galleries operate, locally and internationally, and how did they dialogue
with museums? This book offers an innovative and lasting contribution to research
and scholarship on the history of art in America, while focusing specifically on the
expansion and reception of surrealism in the United States.
