Details the history of Surrealism with highlights of the movements most influential minds: Andre Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, Max Ernst, and Luis Bunuel, Tristan Tzara, Jacques Vache, and Gala Eluard.

Surveys the lives and works of European and American writers, artists, and composers from the Renaissance into the twentieth century.

"The moment just before Radar Radmanovic is born, all of the hospital's electricity mysteriously fails. The delivery takes place in total darkness. Lights back on, the staff sees a healthy baby boy-with pitch-black skin-born to the stunned white parents. No one understands the uncanny electrical event or the unexpected skin color. "A childbirth is an explosion," the ancient physician says by way of explanation. "Some shrapnel is inevitable, isn't...