This revelatory survey of Surrealist masterworks of the 1930s and 1940s by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Max Ernst, and André Masson presents the movement through a new and timely lens — that of war, violence, and exile. Trailblazing essays by four experts in the field trace the experimental and international extent of Surrealist art during these years — and, perhaps most unexpectedly of all, its irrepressible beauty.