'The importance of women and black artists and thinkers to Surrealism’s evolution is only beginning to be recognised. It yields new ground, partly explaining Surrealism’s recent surge as museums worldwide seek to balance their collections by gender, race, place. Surrealism’s global reach is rewarding: whereas Impressionism and Cubism, also Paris-based, became merely imitative when artists further afield adopted them, Surrealism took fire as it travelled and mutated.'

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