Breton’s surrealism, on the other hand, is both idealistic and ideological. It prescribes certain artistic practices—automatism—for certain aesthetic and social ends. The word “surrealism ...
Every person likes some form of art — whether it’s music, movies, or paintings. Then, within each form, there are plenty of ...
Surrealism: First and Always is a distinctive and essential catalogue produced in conjunction with the Centre Pompidou's ...
The photograph picturing Breton (the French writer and surrealism’s principal theorist ... “Originally there were shutters on the windows which were falling apart, so I removed them; I ...
In 1924, the French writer André Breton put his name to a document he called "The Surrealist Manifesto". In it, he argued that European culture had suppressed "everything that may rightly or ...
Mark Robert Rank, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis (THE CONVERSATION) A century ago, French writer and poet André Breton penned his " Manifesto of Surrealism," which launched ...