| It foreshadows the surrealists, as he shows the monkeys playing in the jungle with a backscratcher and a milk bottle, trappings of civilisation in the savage world. |
| In the war the surrealists had been exiled to Manhattan and brought with them an idea of avant-garde cinema. |
| However, not all of the surrealists saw psychoanalysis and the liberation of the human mind as an end in itself. |
| An influential group of Belgian surrealists claimed that it was a previously unattributed sculpture by Rene Magritte. |
| The Parisian surrealists turned Brandt into a noctambulist, adept at studying the phantoms that prowl the city after the dark. |
| It was a description of a transhistorical Event, a break-out embracing Anabaptists, situationists, Dadaists, surrealists, punks. |
