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Mar 18, 2024 · André Breton’s pioneering spirit has undeniably marked him as a cornerstone of surrealism, with his work echoing through the ages. His ability to intertwine the realms of dream and reality has not only inspired artists across various mediums but has also ignited a cultural revolution that continues to influence modern creativity.
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-garde journals including Littérature ...
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 Breton was born in 1896 to a family of shopkeepers in Tinchebray, a small town in Normandy, France. He studied medicine and psychiatry, displaying a special interest in mental illness. Though he never qualified as a psychoanalyst, he worked in neurological wards in Nantes during World War I,…
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. To do so, they attempted to tap into the “superior reality” of the subconscious mind. “Completely against the tide,” said Breton, “in a ...
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".
Breton and Aragon “felt it was time to adopt new tactics . . . thenceforth the group was threatened by its own dissensions.” 16 Breton was determined to find a new strategy of heterogeneousness. Group dissension was a reserve strategy, to be used whenever the group itself threatened to become homogeneous, conformist, whether because of ...
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