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Montagu, Jemima. The Surrealists: Revolutionaries in Art & Writing 1919-35. London: Tate Publishing, 2002. Print. The developments of surrealism can be seen in Montagu's book. She goes through the age of surrealism and identifies all of the changes in the movement. She also lists the artists that helped influence the changes in the movement. the book goes through the year chronologically so it is easy to put in perspective. This is a good source because the author puts specific dates on the changes in Surrealist art.

Clifford,James. "On Ethnographic Surrealism". 1981. JSTORE Internet Database, Web. 16 Nov. 2010. James Clifford runs down the history of surrealism in thos article. he gives descriptions on the influences of the artistic movement as well as the history that is taking place around it.he discusses where the movement is taking place between the wars. he also talks about some of the most influental artists of the period. Overall i would say that this is a very scholarly article that provides alot of background information that would be beneficial to writing a paper on the topic.

Waldburg, Patrick. Surrealism. New York: Thames and Hudson Inc. 1997. Print Waldberg breaks down in his book where surrealism emerged from and who were the great artists of the movement. in his book he discusses the most famous book of the era. the book includes a copy of the surrealist manifesto which is key to understanding the movement. it also has brief bios of artists and a timelime on the history of the movement in the back of the book. i believe this is a good source because the author was a member of the movement himself and was said to be good friends with some of its most influential artists.

Batchelor, David, Briony Fer, Paul Wood. Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism: Art Between the Wars. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. Print The authors of this book breakdown the main art forms that breakout during decades of war in the 1930s and 1940s. Among these they discuss Surrealism and how it came to be. They talk about how it changed during the period of intense fighting and death. A lot of detail is put into the authors descriptions. This is a good source because it specifiys events that changed the movement and how they impacted it.

Loss, Archie. "Vile Bodies, Vorticism and Italian futurism." Journal of Modern Literature 18.1 (1992): 155. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010.\n\n

Taylor, Joshua C. Futurism. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1961. Questia:Trusted Online Research. Cengage Learning, 2010. Web. 11 Nov. 2010. This book is about the art movement of Futurism and the background information of how it came to be. The book tells us about the goals Futurism wished to accomplish. It wanted to create new risky advancement in the art world and did just that. The major part of the book is its accomplishments through various artists. It takes a look at some of those major contributing artists of Futurism such as Umberto Boccioni. It analyses the Manifestos with and how it was the catalyst to the whole movement. This contains a good amount of valuable information that can be very helpful.

Stuckey, Charles F. "Claude Monet: Impressionism's leading light." USA Today Magazine 124.2606 (1995): 36. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This article talks about the history of the Impressionism Movement and more specifically, Claude Monet. It goes on to describe the movements unique techniques and how it went from childish stokes to opening to realms of abstract painting. From there, it tells the readers of the many great acheivements Monet contribited to Impressionism and to art in general.

Townsend, Christopher. "The Future of Futurism." Art Monthly 329 (2009):5-8. EBSCO. Web. 11 Nov. 2010. The Futurist Manifesto was first published in December of 1908in the magazine Poise. This article was written in celebration of the centennial year. It takes a look at Futurism then and now and its effects on society. One of the main points offered is that Futurism and Modernism are linked. Many little but interesting details about futurism can be found in this article.

Henderson, Linda D. "Italian Futurism and The Forth Dimension." Art Journal 41.4 (1981): 317-323. . JSTOR. Web.17 Nov. 2010.

Cowling, Elizabeth. "`PROUDLY WE CLAIM HIM AS ONE OF US': BRETON, PICASSO, AND THE SURREALIST MOVEMENT." Art History 8.1 (1985): 82-104. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. This article talks about Berton's Manifesto and how he tried to improve and expand the movement. One way he tried to do this was by claiming Pablo Picasso as a Surrealist painter. The writing is very detailed and descriptive about the two artists and their ties with Surrealism. It is a long article but it provides quality information. This is a good article because it addresses the parameters of the Surrealist Movement.