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7 hours ago · The original manuscript of André Breton's 'Surrealist Manifesto' (1924), exhibited at the Centre Pompidou. At the beginning of this ambitious exhibition — which opened this past week and will be open to the public until January 2025 — is Breton’s handwritten manifesto, bought from his heirs in 2019 by the National Library of France.
2 days ago · On October 15, 1924, French poet André Breton published his Manifeste du surréalisme, arguing for a new form of literary creation that would unlock the subconscious. He defined Surrealism as “pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express…the real process of thought. It is the dictation of thought, free from any control by ...
4 days ago · ANDRÉ BRETON’S PEN. Posted on September 17, 2024 by Andy Merrifield. One of the many mysteries of André Breton’s great surrealist classic, Nadja, from 1928, is whatever happened to his pen? Whatever happened to it in the text and in real life? Nadja is a strange romance, perhaps the strangest ever written, a novel where dream and reality ...
2 days ago · According to the major spokesman of the movement, the poet and critic André Breton, who published The Surrealist Manifesto in 1924, Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely that the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in “an absolute reality, a ...
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- Surrealism was a movement in visual art and literature that flourished in Europe between World Wars I and II. The movement represented a reaction a...
- Surrealism has no unified style, but, in painting, one can distinguish a range of possibilities falling between two extremes. At one pole, the view...
- Surrealism grew principally out of the earlier Dada movement, which, before World War I, produced works of anti-art that deliberately defied reason...
- The major Surrealist painters were Jean Arp, Max Ernst, André Masson, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Salvador Dalí, Pierre Roy, Paul Delvaux, and Joan...
- Poet Guillaume Apollinaire first used the term “surrealist” in 1917 to describe Jean Cocteau’s ballet Parade, and the word appeared in his own play...
4 days ago · By the end of World War II, the surrealist group led by André Breton decided to explicitly embrace anarchism. In 1952 Breton wrote "It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself."
3 days ago · Le Manifeste d'André Breton, contemporain par "l'universalité des principes qu'il énonce" Le surréalisme, malgré des scissions entre les membres du mouvement et sa forte évolution politique au cours des décennies qui ont suivi la parution du Manifeste d’André Breton, reste une composante importante des arts au XXIe siècle.
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6 days ago · Surrealism is widely traced to 1924 with the publication of the Surrealist Manifesto by French poet and art critic André Breton. The term “Surrealist” was first introduced in 1917 by French ...
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