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 ...
In 1936, Salvador Dalí made a window display for Bonwit Teller department store and he wasn’t the only Surrealist to make a storefront appearance; in 1945, Marcel Duchamp arranged copies of a book by ...
The founder is largely considered to be Andre Breton, a French writer and critic who published "The Surrealist Manifesto ...
and the creation of the core surrealist group in Paris following an initiative of poet and writer, André Breton. It is also the 90th anniversary of the founding of the surrealist group in Prague, ...
A telegram on pink paper by Marcel Duchamp writing as Rrose Sélavy to André Breton — A vinyl 45 rpm two-sided record with recordings of poems by Joyce Mansour and Benjamin Peret — 6 color postcards of ...
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 ...