Essential The Surrealism - Essential Series Author:W. John Campbell Welcome to the world of Surrealism, the Freud-influenced artistic movement of the 1920s and 1930s. The author shows how the daring Surrealists—Dalí, Ernst, Magritte, Man Ray, and others—harnessed the forces of the unconscious through the use of fantasy imagery and an unprecedented juxtaposition of subject matter.