Illustrations

1. Marcel Duchamp: Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2, 1912.

2. Giorgio de Chirico: The Song of Love, 1914.

3. Marcel Duchamp: Apolinère Enameled, c. 1916–17.

4. Amedeo Modigliani: Jean Cocteau, 1917.

5. Jeanne Hébuterne, wife of Amedeo Modigliani, c. 1916.

6. Marcel Duchamp: Belle Haleine – Eau de Voilette (perfume bottle and box), c. 1921.

7. Title page of Parade, ballet by Erik Satie, 1917.

8. Aphorisms and puns from ‘Rrose Sélavy’, published 1939.

9. Max Ernst: The Great Forest, 1927.

10. Max Ernst: Monument to the Birds, 1927.

11. Max Ernst: Flowers and Shells, 1929.

12. Max Ernst: illustration from La Femme 100 têtes, 1929.

13. Max Ernst: untitled photographic collage, 1920.

14. Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray playing chess in Entr’Acte (1924), 1968.

15. Salvador Dalí: The Persistence of Memory, 1931.

16. Salvador Dalí: Surrealist Object Functioning Symbolically (1931/73).

17. Marcel Duchamp with his brothers, Jacques Villon (left) and Raymond Duchamp Villon (right) in Puteaux, 1913.

18. The surrealist group in a plane in an amusement park.

19. Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso with the Russian dancer Olga Khokhlova, 1917.

20. Salvador Dalí and Gala.