The Surrealist Output Switzerland. This extensive, lavishly illustrated book accompanying the major exhibition "Surrealism Switzerland" at the Aargau Art Museum provides a profound art and cultural historical overview of the development and reception of this important international art movement in Switzerland through its high-profile contributions. It presents an artistic stance that was largely independent of the Parisian exponents of the early days and continues to influence the Swiss art scene today. In the years following World War I, the Parisian avant-garde turned against the escapist tendencies of art and developed techniques that appealed to the unconscious, thereby allowing fantasies, visions, and fears to be expressed directly. In the realm of visual arts, the term Surrealism comes to mind.