Surrealism at 100: does it still have the power to disrupt?
Jan 27, 2024 — Indeed Breton and his gang trumpeted preceding writers and artists engaged in fantasy and the absurd — Bosch, Gogol, Kafka — as Surrealists avant la lettre. What Breton’s …
André Breton - Wikipedia
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 …
André Breton, the Artistic Avant-Garde and Surrealism’s
Apr 27, 2019 — Part of the book series: Studies in Revolution and Literature ( (SRL)) This chapter analyses the critiques of work that emerged within the Dadaist and Surrealist avant-gardes, …
DISPENSABLE FRIENDS, INDISPENSABLE IDEOLOGIES: ANDRE …
For it had to do with his own tragicomic assimilation as a utopian ornament of society, and his own convulsive, yet peculiarly conventional efforts—for his revolt mimicked the violence of the …
André Breton Art, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory
André Breton was an original member of the Dada group who went on to start and lead the Surrealist movement in 1924. In New York, Breton and his colleagues curated Surrealist …
André Breton | Biography, Surrealism, Books, & Facts - Britannica
His second Surrealist manifesto, published in 1930, explored the philosophical implications of Surrealism. Breton broke with the Communist Party in 1935 but remained committed to …
100 years of Surrealism 1924-2024 | Christie's
Sep 13, 2024 — One hundred years ago, André Breton sat down at his desk in the modest apartment he inhabited on Rue Fontaine in Paris’s 9th arrondissement. What resulted was a …
An Unconventional Life of His Mind : A biography of Andre Breton …
Aug 27, 1995 — Andre Breton was born in 1896 in a small town in Normandy to a genial father, insistent only on a single topic, anti-clericalism, and to a severe, unloving mother whose main …
André Breton’s Surrealist vision | Apollo Magazine
Apr 5, 2022 — Breton turned to Trotsky, visiting the exiled revolutionary at the home of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in Mexico in 1938. Their contact over several months resulted in the joint …
No Walk Is Ever Wasted - The Paris Review
Nov 17, 2020 — Perhaps it is also a recollection of the night he spent in the waiting room of Nuremberg station in 1931, an incident that informed a scene in his novel Watt (1953). …