Simulating the Marvellous

Acknowledging simulation's relevance to Surrealism, this book argues, radically alters our understanding of their project and the terms in which one gauges its success or failure. It leads one to question the naive assumption that automatic writing or drawing represent an authentic outpouring of the unconscious and gives renewed significance to a figure such as Salvador Dali who embraced simulation and made it the basis of his art and aesthetic. It also points to one of the ways in which Surrealism chimes with a core preoccupation of contemporary art and theory.