Now 90, he’s showing paintings at Independent, the art fair, and says Surrealism is “an attitude toward the world.” Jean-Claude Silbermann joined André Breton’s acolytes at 18.

The new volume Les portes du rêve: 1924–2024 Surrealism Through Its Journals, edited by artist Franca Franchi and published to coincide with the manifestos’ centenary, aims to address and ...