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Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Breton wrote political and philosophical tracts, poems, and novels. Nadja (1928), his most famous novel, is a portrait of Breton and a mad, inspired woman that merges the banal and everyday with the fantastic.
Tinebrache, France, 1896–Paris, 1966. André Breton is primarily known as the co-founder of both Paris Dada and of Surrealism, yet he was also an important player in the burgeoning market in modern art in the 1920s. Breton is the author of such Surrealist literary works as Nadja (1928) and L’amour fou [Mad love] (1937), the editor of avant ...
Sep 28, 2011 · 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. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surréalisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism".
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. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto ( Manifeste du surréalisme ) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism".
André Breton was the founder and chief theorist of the surrealist movement. Through his study of medicine and work with the insane, he became interested in irrational imagery. After serving as a medical auxiliary during the First World War, he discovered the work of Sigmund Freud.
Surrealism was an artistic, intellectual, and literary movement led by poet André Breton from 1924 through World War II. The Surrealists sought to overthrow the oppressive rules of modern society by demolishing its backbone of rational thought.
DISPENSABLE FRIENDS, INDISPENSABLE IDEOLOGIES: ANDRE BRÉTON’S SURREALISM. By Donald Kuspit. SURREALISM HAS RIPENED INTO a burdensome, slightly blowsy cliché, mechanically used in much “new” art. Its manifestos have become all too official and academic; the movement has suffered more than most from popular success.
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