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 ...

By the Surrealist and Council Communist Louis Janover and his associates, this articles criticizes the mainstream Surrealist ...

One hundred years ago the French poet André Breton published his “Manifesto of Surrealism,” establishing a movement that was as influential in the 20th century as Romanticism had been in the ...

In October 1924, French writer André Breton published what’s now known as the Surrealist Manifesto. The seminal text—which ...

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 wrongly ...

Surrealism: First and Always is a distinctive and essential catalogue produced in conjunction with the Centre Pompidou's ...

The Surrealist movement is celebrating its centenary. Yvette Huddleston looks at two exhibitions in the region that are ...

Jay from "Surrealism Today," said that surrealism technically has two definitions. First, it's an art movement, started by Andre Breton, that seeks to release the creative potential of the ...

One hundred years ago this October, André Breton wrote his first Surrealist Manifesto, widely recognised as the starting point of the movement. Rejecting rationalism as “hostile to any ...

Evocation of André Breton's role in the surrealist movement, on images of landscapes, Paris, surrealist paintings, faces of young girls and ruins of castles. The main themes addressed ...