Surrealism in Latin America: Vivísimo Muerto gift jewelry and Charissa Bremer David and Jeffrey symbols of desire and Charissa Bremer David and Jeffrey Weaver are curator and associate curator Special illustrated sections This collection of essays—the first major account of surrealism in Latin America that covers both literary and visual production—explores the role the movement played in the construction and recuperation of cultural identities and the ways artists and writers contested ” and makes a strong case for Latin American artists and writers as the inheritors of a movement that effectively went underground after World War II