16 DECEMBER 1972, page 13

Roger Scruton On Andre Breton And Surrealist Painting

The aim of Surrealism, according to its most articulate apologist, Andre Breton, was " to prevent the domination of the symbol by the thing signified." It was Breton's belief......

A Congenial Despair

Auberon Waugh There will be a Short Interval Storm Jameson (Harvill £2.25) Miss Jameson's new novel illustrates a variation on the idea that when a man knows he is to be hanged......