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- In December 1929, Breton published the Second manifeste du surréalisme (Second manifesto of surrealism), which contained an oft-quoted declaration for which many, including Albert Camus, reproached Breton: "The simplest surrealist act consists, with revolvers in hand, of descending into the street and shooting at random, as much as possible, into the crowd".
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The Surrealist Manifesto refers to a collection of several publications between Yvan Goll and André Breton, prior leaders of the rival Surrealist groups. Goll and Breton had both originally published manifestos in October 1924 titled Manifeste du surréalisme. Breton later wrote a second in 1929, publishing it the following year, with his ...
This is the 1929 “Second Manifesto of Surrealism” published 5 years after the First Manifesto. It appeared in the the twelfth and final issue of La Révolution surréaliste (December 15, 1929). Surrealism, although a special part of its function is to examine with a critical eye the notions of reality and unreality, reason and irrationality,
Second Manifesto of Surrealism (1930) A Letter to Seers (1925) Political Position of Surrealism (1935): Extracts. Preface (1935) Political Position of Today's Art (1935) Speech to the Congress of Writers (1935) On the Time When the Surrealists Were Right (1935)
Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principal problems of life. [. . .] . . .
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In 1930, Breton praised Dalí’s representations of the unconscious in the Second Manifesto of Surrealism. They became the main collaborators on the review Minotaure (1933–39), a primarily Surrealist-oriented publication founded in Paris. The organized Surrealist movement in Europe dissolved with the onset of World War II.
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André Robert Breton ( French: [ɑ̃dʁe ʁɔbɛʁ bʁətɔ̃]; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. [1] . His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto ( Manifeste du surréalisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism". [2]
