New Surrealism

‘The book whisks us through a wide-ranging view of surrealism.’ – CNN Style

‘The book whisks us through a wide-ranging view of surrealism.’ – Lürzer’s Archive

‘New Surrealism is a wild hardback journey with 336 pages of mind-blowing illustrations.’ – Stupid Dope

‘A fascinating exploration of the surrealist art movement on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of its origins. The beautifully illustrated New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting [has] a novel and incredibly rich way of showing the development of artistic expression across time and place.’ – Shelf Awareness

‘An insightful survey that illuminates the connections between art and politics, New Surrealism is a valuable overview of one of the most influential movements in Western art history.’ – Colossal

‘[A] sweeping survey of Surrealism, one of the world’s most memorable art movements, in a new book that examines its history and current role in modern-day painting.’ – Galerie Magazine

‘A primer on Surrealism highlights how it captures the imagination’ – The Globe and Mail Style Advisor

Robert Zeller is a visual artist and writer who received a BFA from a joint program of the Boston Museum School and Tufts University and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. Following his bestselling The Figurative Artist’s Handbook (2017), New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting is his second book published by Monacelli Studio. He contributed a chapter about Surrealist photography to the exhibition catalog Photography: Real and Imagined (2024), profiling the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, and has also written for The Brooklyn Rail and other influential art periodicals and blogs. In 2009, he founded The Teaching Studios of Art, an in-person and online art school devoted to instruction in figurative art. Zeller maintains a studio practice in Brooklyn, New York, and is the recipient of two Posey Fellowships and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. He has curated group exhibitions and shown his own work at galleries in the United States and Europe.

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