The term surrealism was coined in 1917, by the poet and playwright Guillaume Apollinaire. He was referring to a new kind of expression that pushed beyond a “realistic” reflection of life. By the end of the First World War—and in large part thanks to the coinciding influence of Dadaism—surrealist tendencies in art began to grow. In 1924, with the distribution of the Surrealist Manifesto (an encompassing term for multiple publications by Yvan Goll and André Breton), the movement asserted itself. The dreamlike ethos of Surrealism was present in literature, film, music, and politics, not to mention painting—Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, and Joan Miró were a few of Surrealism’s chief practitioners. On the centenary of the Surrealist Manifesto, the Blanton Museum of Art exhibits works by Ray, Max Ernst, Leonora Carrington, and others. —Jack Sullivan