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Illustrations Photomontaged frieze of portraits of the members of the Surrealist Group, December 1929 12 Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles and their daughter, ca. 1930 19 Drawing by Dalí of a blasphemous anal, oral, and genital flower, 1930 23 A frame still from Menjant garotes, directed by Buñuel in 1930 27 A collage by Max Ernst from his La Femme 100 têtes (1929) and a frame still from L’Âge d’or (1930) 31 The devastation caused to Studio 28 by a Fascist gang on 3 December 1930 58 The welcoming committee for Buñuel on his arrival in California in November 1930 66 An MGM poster for El presidio (Ward Wing, 1930) 68 Buñuel with actress Georgia Hale in Beverly Hills at the end of 1930 73 MGM’s letter of farewell, which Buñuel received at the end of February 1931 75 Max Ernst, Loplop Introduces Members of the Surrealist Group, 1931 95 Buñuel, Giacometti, and their giraffe, April 1932 107 Buñuel’s letter to Breton of 6 May 1932 110–11 Buñuel and Pierre Unik working on the Wuthering Heights script, July 1932 135 A possible meeting of the Order of Toledo in the Venta de Aires inn on the outskirts of the city, 1932–34 159 Stills from Ténérife (Yves Allégret, 1932) and Las Hurdes (1933) 160 José Gutiérrez Solana’s Old Highland Woman, ca. 1933–34 170 Back cover of no. 1 of the Spanish AEAR magazine Octubre, June–July 1933 171 vii viii Illustrations  Poster by Enrique Herreros to promote Urgoiti’s Estudio Proa-Filmófono 192 Still from Don Quintín, el amargao (Luis Marquina, 1935) 205 José María Torres’s urban décor for Don Quintín, el amargao 214 Cover of the 1930 edition of the stage play of La hija de Juan Simón 218 Herreros poster for ¿Quién me quiere a mí? ( José Luis Sáenz de Heredia, 1936) 227 Cover of a novelization of ¡Centinela alerta! 232 Receipt in Buñuel’s handwriting, dated 25 August 1936 245 Juan Piqueras, the Communist film critic from Valencia 247 Julio Álvarez del Vayo, foreign minister in the Largo Caballero government (1936–37) 264 Luis Araquistáin, Spanish ambassador to Paris, September 1936–May 1937 266 Soviet documentary moviemaker Roman Karmen 271 Stills from Espagne 1936 ( Jean-Paul Dreyfus and Luis Buñuel, 1937) 283 Still from Espagne 1936 285 The opening shot in Espagne 1936 287 Willi Münzenberg in Paris, ca. 1936 298 Frontage of the Spanish Tourist Office in Paris, 1937–38 301 Juan Vicens and María Luisa González, 1932 304 Rafael Sánchez Ventura and the Acín family, 1933 313 Franco-Argentinean film star Georges Rigaud 321 Maurice Henry’s drawing of exemplary and lapsed Surrealist figures, 1950 345 Henry Fonda in Blockade (William Dieterle, 1938) 348 A page from Dalí’s letter from New York to Buñuel in Los Angeles, April 1939 352 ...

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