We live in a society that abjures shared reality for the chaos of social media. The situation might have pleased the Surrealists, and it certainly would have amused their leader, André Breton, who ...

Man, that inveterate dreamer, daily more discontent with his destiny, has trouble assessing the objects he has been led to use, objects that his nonchalance has brought his way. -- André Breton, ...

A blockbuster at the Fundación MAPFRE gives deserved attention to Surrealist women such as Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning. What if Surrealism had altogether escaped the grip of André Breton?

This year, 2024, marks the centenary of Surrealism—a full 100 years since the poet and critic André Breton debuted the Surrealist Manifesto. Not only that, it’s also been a century since the writer ...

Performance Surrealism's Fistfights and Adversarial Culture An evening Dada revue organized by Tristan Tzara, July 6, 1923's Soirée du Coeur à Barbe (Night of the Bearded Heart) was the site of an ...

André Breton is known as the founder of Surrealism, the author of numerous manifestos of surrealism, and Nadja (1929), the semi-autobiographical novel that pioneered stream-of-consciousness writing.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) As an art historian and critic who has closely studied 20th-century avant-garde ...

The more I think of it, the more I'd like to see this. You're standing on the sidewalk, and a small cafe or pub catches your eye. It's painted in deep, swirling color, not garish but bold -- emerald, ...

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