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 ...

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 ...

A history of the ‘exquisite corpse’ in art shows how it embodies surrealist ideas of freedom, community and radical ...

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

Vital Signs’ at MoMA explores how artists have abstracted bodily experience as a means of mapping the construction of ...

like Breton, exiled from France to Martinique, he came into contact with the prominent anti-colonialist thinkers and writers Aimé and Suzanne Césaire, who published the Surrealist journal ...

Located just 75 miles to the north of the French city of Toulouse, the town of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie feels like stepping back in ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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