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 Surrealism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Surrealists revived interest in Isidore Ducasse, known by his pseudonym “Le Comte de Lautréamont” and for the line “beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella”, and Arthur Rimbaud, two late 19th century writers believed to be the precursors of Surrealism.
Surrealists look to so-called "primitive art" as an example of expression that is not self-censored.
Breton's Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 and the publication of the magazine La Révolution surréaliste (The Surrealist Revolution) marked the beginning of the Surrealism as a public agitation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism   (4791 words)

  
 Surrealist Manifesto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ÕThe Surrealist Manifesto was written by the French writer André Breton and published in 1924.
The works of several of his contemporaries in developing the Surrealist style in poetry are also quoted, including texts by Philippe Soupault, Paul Eluard, Robert Desnos and Louis Aragon, among others.
Breton also discusses his initial encounter with the surreal in a famous description of a hypnagogic state that he experienced in which a strange phrase inexplicably appeared in his mind: There is a man cut in two by the window.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealist_Manifesto   (559 words)

  
 Andre Breton - definition of Andre Breton in Encyclopedia
Manifestoes of Surrealism by André Breton, translated by Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane.
His writings include the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as pure psychic automatism.
André Breton (February 18, 1896 - September 28, 1966) was a French writer, poet, and Surrealist theoretician.
http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Andre_Breton   (418 words)

  
 favourite art directory - surrealist art
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http://www.engelen.com/links/surrealistart.html   (1331 words)

  
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One of the results was the surrealists, who inherited from Dada the contempt for traditional bourgeois culture and the classical aesthetics of "art for art's sake".
Interestingly, the surrealists preferred the popular Hollywood films, because the films were not part of bourgeois art, but of a new anti-art medium.
Born out of artistic and literary circles, and with the writer Andre Breton the closest thing to a leader of the movement, the members of the movement were primarily writers and painters, and not filmmakers.
http://www.uib.no/people/ssptr/surreal.htm   (1689 words)

  
 andre breton and the politics of surrealism
The manifesto was designed both as a vigorous rejection of Stalinist attempts to impose military discipline in the cultural sphere, and as a rallying cry for writers and artists who supported the class struggle but were not prepared to accept Communist Party hegemony.
The recent exhibition of surrealist work, "Desire Unbound", at the Tate Modern in London paid Breton and his comrades a back-handed compliment when it omitted any serious reference to the politics of surrealism from what was supposed to be a definitive account of the movement's development.
Publication of the Manifesto was followed by the setting up of an embryonic revolutionary artists' organization, the F.I.A.R.I., which however failed to flourish in the worsening political climate of the late thirties.
http://www.geocities.com/youth4sa/art2.html   (1434 words)

  
 André Breton
MANIFESTES DU SURRÉALISME, 1962 - Manifestoes of Surrealism
The Surrealist movement was from the beginning in a constant state of change or conflict, but its major periodicals, La Révolution surréaliste (1924-30) and Le Surréalisme au service de la révolution (1930-33), channeled cooperation and also spread ideas beyond France.
French poet, essayist, critic, and editor, chief promoter and one of the founders of Surrealist movement with Paul Eluard, Luis Buñuel, and Salvador Dali among others.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/abreton.htm   (1234 words)

  
 Humphrey Jennings - Surreal Britain
The First Surrealist Manifesto was published in 1924, and the group staged its first exhibition in Paris a year later.
The surrealists wrote about beauty being 'convulsive' and they invented evocative phrases such as: 'Are elephants contagious?' In their art, they exhibited 'ready-mades' or 'found objects', like Marcel Duchamp's urinal, or created pictures by chance, using splashes and rubbing grainy surfaces, as Max Ernst did.
The British group, joined by the painter Conroy Maddox, carried on publishing tracts, manifestos and holding exhibitions during the war years but Jennings moved on to embrace activities that brought him nearer the hearts and minds of ordinary people: Mass Observation and documentary film.
http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/J/jennings/surreal.html   (602 words)

  
 Surrealism, Alchemy, and the Northern Renaissance
The Surrealist's use of symbolism and narration that is born of a literary and linguistic base ties Surrealists to a group recognized as "signing" painters, which also included artists of the Northern Renaissance.
The symbols of alchemy used by Northern Renaissance artists reflect alchemy's state as the "prime object." While Surrealists had the advantage of being able to study art works of the Northern Renaissance, the alchemical symbols used by Surrealists reflect the variation that is inevitable in the "repetition" phase of alchemy.
Surrealists had the distinct advantage of being able to look back into the history of both alchemy and Northern Renaissance art.
http://www.csuchico.edu/art/contrapposto/Contrapposto97/Pages/Lee1.html   (4953 words)

  
 Art and freedom André Breton and problems of twentieth-century culture
IN JUNE and July 1938 Leon Trotsky, exiled Russian revolutionary, and André Breton, French Surrealist poet and thinker, collaborated in Mexico on the writing of an extraordinary "Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art." This declaration remains the most eloquent expression yet produced of the commonality of interests of the artist and the revolutionary Marxist.
The Surrealists were hostile to conventional art and to the careers that went into making it.
As a sociological phenomenon Surrealism, whose first manifesto (written by Breton) appeared in 1924, no doubt contained as an element the disgust felt by many young people for the slaughter of the First World War and the society that had produced it.
http://www.wsws.org/arts/1997/jun1997/breton1.shtml   (3682 words)

  
 The Surrealist Art Movement: definition surrealist artists history examples
The surrealist movement of visual art and literature, flourishing in Europe between World Wars I and II.
Surrealism grew principally out of the earlier Dada movement, which before World War I produced works of anti-art that deliberately defied reason; but Surrealism emphasis was not on negation but on positive expression.
Continued thought processes and investigations into the mind produce today some of the best art ever seen.
http://www.popsubculture.com/pop/bio_project/surrealism.html   (231 words)

  
 Breton—What is Surrealism?
Agitated though it was, the epoch that separates the two Manifestos was none the less a rich one, since it saw the publication of so many works in which the vital principles of surrealism were amply accounted for.
The ill-sounding remarks, that are imputed to us, the so-called inconsiderate attacks, the insults, the quarrels, the scandals—all things that we are so much reproached with—turned up on the same road as the surrealist poems.
The Manifesto of Surrealism has improved on the Rimbaud principle that the poet must turn seer.
http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/%7Efa1871/whatsurr.html   (6400 words)

  
 Surrealism is the period between the World Wars, begun by André Breton in 1924
The works are too diverse to be summarized categorically as the Surrealist approach in the visual arts.
What the artists find so attractive about surrealism is the clearly defined method of making new works of art, a method which also opens up possibilities for the implementation of new visual techniques.
Began officially in 1924 with a manifesto drawn up by the Surrealist writer André Breton (1896-1966).
http://web.singnet.com/~destan69/resources/surrealism.html   (947 words)

  
 The Surrealist Movement: Notes by Susan Foley and Jerri-Jo Idarius
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish painter and sculptor, was an originator, with Georges Braque, of Cubism, and probably the most famous and prolific painter of the twentieth century, creating more than 20,000 works of art during his lifetime.
Painters officially came to the Surrealist Movement in 1925 when Pablo Picasso, André Masson, Marcel Duchamp, Paul Klee, Max Ernst and Giorgio de Chirico and others exhibited together at a Paris gallery.
André Breton (1896-1966) was a French poet, critic, and a leader of the Surrealist movement.
http://www.gracemillennium.com/winter00/html/surreal.htm   (826 words)

  
 BBC NEWS Entertainment Surrealist's treasures spark row
Gathered in Breton's flat, the Surrealists applied the method to the field of art and created some unusual juxtapositions.
Breton's apartment in the capital's Pigalle district - where he lived for 40 years - is revered by his fans as a work of art in its own right.
Though he joined the Communist party and in 1938 collaborated with Trotsky for a tract on revolutionary art, he refused to toe any political line for long.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2713815.stm   (599 words)

  
 Durozoi, History of the Surrealist Movement, excerpt
The surrealists archived works that had already been exhibited, as well as the notebooks in which they would jot down their automatic texts and manuscripts.
Instead of announcing the appearance of a new school or trend in the arts (as the futurist or Dada manifestos had done), it validated the ambitions that for some time had already been those of Breton and his close circle.
On October 11, a letter was sent from the Bureau for Surrealist Research to Pierre Morhange, a collaborator on the periodical Philosophies, where he had recently evoked surrealism in terms that were particularly vague: "This art form, invented by the genial Max Jacob.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/174115.html   (2062 words)

  
 a surrealist manifesto - the declaration of january 27, 1925/ www.spreadhead.net - new underground guerrilla ...
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http://spreadhead.virtualave.net/rummage33.html   (320 words)

  
 Andre Breton The founder of the Surrealist Artist group and the art and literary movement Surrealism's Biographical ...
Like all great leaders he wanted to adhere to the principles he had set for himself and the friends who accompanied him on the great spiritual adventure of poetry and 'the marvelous' that was Surrealism.
His so called 'ex communications' were botched but at the same time basically well intentioned attempts to keep the surrealist rebellion genuine and authentic, and his supposed 'dictatorial personality' was simply his passionate nature translated into action.
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http://andrebreton.org/bio.html   (516 words)

  
 AVANT-GARDE FOR HOLOGRAPHY by wasy of NEMESIS by Al Razutis
We might recall the early surrealist attacks on salons, the academy and all traditional art forms, especially impressionism in painting.
Historically, the avant-gardes (and it is important to remember that there were many) participated in the transformation of art by adversarial means.
The avant-garde in holography, wherever it is and whenever it shows its face, could at least guarantee that we don't sit back smugly, write our memories as "history" and make our pronouncements on art and revolution without at least being partially accountable to that which tests these theories and their limits.
http://www.alchemists.com/visual_alchemy/wavefront/wave4.html   (3037 words)

  
 Terrance Lindall's New International Surrealist Manifesto
This is not specifically what the abstract expressionists are offering, but it is what the surreal/visionary and fantastic artists of Brave Destiny are pursuing in their art.
And that was a Surrealist method.They wanted to invent and so they would sit down, a Gorky did, and do Picasso.
In creating the show Brave Destiny in in September 2003 in cooperation with the London’s Society for Art of the Imagination, I also, ultimately wanted to take a look at what the living and working surrealist/visionary/fantastic artist Saar thinking and doing in context of the past, especially since Breton.
http://www.cinemavii.com/Events/BraveDestiny/NISM.htm   (1862 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Arts news Surrealist's art collection fetches £32m
Since the poet's death in 1966, at the age of 70, the flat has been preserved along with thousands of artworks, photographs, a collection of primitive art and personal souvenirs.
The biggest official buyers were the Jacques Doucet Museum in Paris, where Breton left his personal letters, and the National Museum of Modern Art at the Pompidou centre, which had previously acquired some of Breton's artefacts as part of death duties.
The auctions, which went on late into the night to accommodate telephone bidders from the US, were disturbed by opponents of the state's refusal to buy Breton's rented flat near Pigalle, in the north of Paris, where the surrealist manifesto was drawn up in 1924.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,939640,00.html   (447 words)

  
 Surrealism. Surrealist Art
Documents of Dada and Surrealism: Dada and Surrealist Journals in the Mary Reynolds Collection.
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Giorgio de Chirico and the Myth of Ariadne.
Surrealist precursors, background, photographic portraits of suurealists, internet links.
http://www.zeroland.co.nz/surrealist_art.html   (205 words)

  
 GoodNewsPhilippines - The greatest living Filipino surrealist is a Dabawenyo!?
If that isn’t enough, add to that his 2003 New International Surrealist Manifesto wherein he coined the earlier-mentioned term Pansurrealism -- the latest addition to the free encyclopedia of art styles.
If Ben, as he is commonly known in Davao, were a patsy artist, his donated work would have been refused by the center lest they stake Williamsburg Art and Historical Center’s credibility.
But, as circumstances would have it, Ben’s painting “My Warlock Dreams 666,” first exhibited at the Royal Mandaya Hotel, Davao, in 2002, now is a fixture at one of the world’s art Meccas.
http://www.goodnewsphilippines.com/balita/publish/article_55.shtml   (1216 words)

  
 Surrealist Manifesto 1924
The Surrealist Manifesto was written in 1924 by Andre Breton and then signed by such artists as Louis Aragon, Antonin Artaud, Jacques Baron, Joe Bousquet, J.-A. Boiffard, Jean Carrive, Rene Crevel, Robert Desnos, Paul Elaurd, Max Ernst, and Breton himself.
Such and such an image, by which he deems it opportune to indicate his progress and which may result, perhaps, in his receiving public acclaim, is to me, I must confess, a matter of complete indifference.
In Les Champs magnétiques, the first purely Surrealist work, this is the way in which the pages grouped together under the title Barrières must be conceived of -- pages wherein Soupault and I show ourselves to be impartial interlocutors.
http://www.seaboarcreations.com/sindex/manifestbreton.htm   (11080 words)

  
 Documents of Dada and Surrealism: Dada and Surrealist Journals in the Mary Reynolds Collection
Their passionate coverage of art, politics, and culture captures the climate that fueled the Dada and Surrealist revolts and contributes greatly to our understanding of the often enigmatic imagery of these movements.
Since so many of the initial manifestations of Dada and Surrealism were public gatherings, demonstrations, and other similar activities, the journals, through their announcements and coverage of these events, provide invaluable documentation of the evolution of Dada and Surrealism.
Documents of Dada and Surrealism: Dada and Surrealist Journals in the Mary Reynolds Collection
http://www.artic.edu/reynolds/essays/hofmann.php   (2134 words)

  
 André Breton
Manifestoes of Surrealism by André Breton, translated by Richard Seaver[?] and Helen R. Lane[?].
André Breton (February 18, 1896 - 1966) was a French poet and author, author of the Surrealist manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as pure psychic automatism.
He was born at Tinchebray[?] (Orne) in Normandy and joined the Dadaist movement in 1916.
http://www.termsdefined.net/an/andr%e9-breton.html   (287 words)

  
 Undergraduate Studies: Honors Program
All part of the Surrealist philosophy espoused by Andr6 Breton and his French comrades during the height of the movement in the 1920's and 1930's, these notions of transcending traditional logic in search of a higher “surreality,” are the main thrust of my proposed project.
For years he has been heading the small Surrealist discussion group which meets at his office every Thursday to discuss the philosophies of Surrealist giants like Andr6 Breton and Philippe Soupault and practice their own Surrealist writing through the use of automatic writing and other games.
Touted as one of the most influential works to emerge from Surrealism, this renowned novel offers an intriguing gaze into the interactions between the narrator (assumed to be Breton himself) and Nadja, the multi-faceted, somewhat psychologically unstable young woman he becomes involved with.
http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/english/undergrad/samples/exquisite.htm   (6199 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Arts news Surrealist's belongings sold
Writers, artists and librarians protested outside a Paris saleroom yesterday when auctioneers began a week-long disposal of the contents of André Breton's Pigalle flat, where the Surrealist manifesto was drawn up in 1924.
The flat, where Breton lived for more than 40 years until his death in 1966, was considered an artwork in itself: nearly every inch was packed with objects ranging from American Indian masks to apparently worthless seaside souvenirs.
Leaflets were handed out asking for government action to stop the break-up of the poet's personal collection, which includes paintings by Miro and Magritte, more than 3,500 first edition books, archives of the Surrealist movement and thousands of photographs.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,932112,00.html   (247 words)

  
 BBC NEWS Entertainment Arts Record start to Breton auction
Born in Normandy in 1896, Breton wrote poetry, served in World War I and studied psychoanalysis before writing the Surrealist Manifesto in 1924.
A batch of paintings owned by Surrealist master Andre Breton has been sold at auction in Paris for 13.2m euros (£9m).
Breton's collection includes a host of priceless modern artworks
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/2952155.stm   (302 words)

  
 Durozoi, Gerard: History of the Surrealist Movement
The book discusses expertly the main surrealist artists like Jean Arp, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró, but also treats with considerable understanding the surrealist writing by Louis Aragon, Paul Eluard, Robert Desnos, Julien Graçq and, of course, the so-called 'Pope of Surrealism,' André Breton.
Tracing the movement from its origins in the 1920s to its decline in the 1950s and 1960s, Durozoi tells the history of Surrealism through its activities, publications, and reviews, demonstrating its close ties to some of the most explosive political, as well as creative, debates of the twentieth century.
Drawing on a staggering amount of documentary and visual evidence--including 1,000 photos--Durozoi illuminates all the intellectual and artistic facets of the movement, from literature and philosophy to painting, photography, and film, thus making History of the Surrealist Movement its definitive encyclopedia.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/14391.ctl   (284 words)

  
 THE ART QUESTION
On the converse of this is the individual in revolt against the commodification of life in general and art in particular.
A hundred and eighty-one years ago William Blake warned us against certain artists who the ruling class "Hired to Depress Art." Today capital and its state monopolize Art itself while stifling all free expression.
The Surrealists, with all their shortcomings (internal purges etc.), attempted such an endeavor with a degree of success far beyond that of cliche art scenes.
http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/blackstarnorth/art.html   (1406 words)

  
 Andre Breton Quotes - Surrealism
Famous works include : The Surrealist Manifesto, 1924.
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Andre Breton Art Quotes - 1896 / 1966
http://www.artquotes.net/masters/breton/andre-breton-quotes.htm   (153 words)

  
 Max Ernst Online
Ernst's son is the abstract painter Jimmy Ernst.
Ernst married four times: to Luise Straus, Marie-Berthe Aurenche, art collector Peggy Guggenheim, and Surrealist artist Dorothea Tanning.
I feel, at heart, a far greater affinity with the German Romantics than many of the French Surrealists...
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/ernst_max.html   (510 words)

  
 Manifestos, Manifestos, We've Got Manifestos
Jeff Gundy's "Manifesto of Anabaptist Surrealism, or Surrealist Anabaptism" from his essay "Heresy and the Individual Talent"
Charles Baudelaire's manifesto, "The Painter of Modern Life"
Some dudes named Marx and Engels and their manifesto
http://www.dwpoet.com/manifesto.htm   (87 words)

  
 Links im Forum poetischer Kulturen
Paintings of Johannes Hendrikus Moesman, surrealist art creator
Massurrealismus [Mass media related pop art and surrealist imagery]
fakeTate Gallery - post surRealism and post surRealist art by Julian Hill
http://forum.psrabel.com/portal/links.html   (736 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Surrealist Prints
Printmaking has been an important and much-studied part of art history since the 15th century, but this work is the first survey of the medium to focus on the years between the Wars.
For art history collections and other libraries with specific interests in Surrealism or Modernism.?Nadine Dalton Speidel, Cuyahoga Cty.
Surrealist prints directly stem from the literary inclinations of the movement; published materials almost always included illustrations striving to define the blur between words and no words, real and unreal, consciousness and unconsciousness.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0810963396   (433 words)

  
 Anarcho Surrealist Insurrectionary Feminist (AS IF) MANIFESTO - Melbourne 1973
In June 1973, a number of women in Melbourne decided to create AS IF.
Anarcho Surrealist Insurrectionary Feminist (AS IF) MANIFESTO - Melbourne 1973
We call ourselves Surrealists because as revolutionaries we believe it is imperative to develop a revolutionary culture that expands the vision of the future, and sabotages the reality of the present.
http://www.takver.com/history/aia/aia00032.htm   (2505 words)

  
 Robert S. Beal (SURREALIST ARTIST) Painter/Etcher (entry page to index)
Robert S. Beal (SURREALIST ARTIST) Painter/Etcher (entry page to index)
http://members.aol.com/bealmusic/page14/index.htm   (118 words)

  
 HON 102-04: 20th-Century Civ. I
We will read and discuss intellectuals from various genres (political manifesto, drama, nonfiction prose, novel, poetry, music, as well as film, painting, and other visual mediums) who illustrate the same questions this course addresses.
The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings (Published by and known in syllabus as Dover)
These are just some of the questions we will consider as we read major European writers of the 19th and 20th centuries in search of what makes Modernism(s) revolutionary.
http://chss.montclair.edu/%7Enielsenw/civ1.html   (792 words)

  
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Surrealist Manifesto (1924); La Revolution Surrealiste (magazine); La Declaration du Janvier 1925 (Declaration); La Legitime Defense (brochure); Immaculee Conception; Second Surrealist Manifesto (1929); S.A.S.D.L.R.; La Cadavre (1930, leaflet); Aux Intellectuels (1930)
Surrealism was the first movement to abolish state boundaries and become truly international
http://www.artzine-journal.com/1st_Issue/Source/absurren.html   (243 words)

  
 Interactivist Info Exchange Surrealist Manifesto Against the War & the State
More recently she has maintained close ties to the Surrealist Movement in the U.S. Her first book, Through the Vast Halls of Memory, appeared in 1991 but is now out of print.
As writer and collagist she is represented in Penelope Rosemont’s Surrealist Women: An International Anthology (University of Texas Press, 1998).
Surrealist Manifesto Against the War and the State
http://slash.interactivist.net/analysis/02/10/16/1558248.shtml   (1192 words)

  
 20th-Century Civilization
Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto (M/E Reader p.
Marx and Engels: Keywords and Outline; What is the Marxist revolution, and how does it differ from the Socialist revolution?
http://chss.montclair.edu/%7Enielsenw/honors.html   (699 words)

  
 [Leica] H.C.-B. and the Surrealist Manifesto
There was a big surrealist > "movement" in photography I imagine they used the term differently then the > painters did.
Replies: Reply from feli at creocollective.com (Feli di Giorgio) ([Leica] H.C.-B. and the Surrealist Manifesto)
Cartier-Bresson was an early practitioner of the manifesto's principles.
http://leica-users.org/v27/msg05914.html   (212 words)

  
 "I morgon kommer något underbart att hända" - text
What is the point of having works of art on a university campus?
When the National Public Art Council had decided to support my project
In his second Surrealist manifesto in 1929, André Breton sought to regain
http://www.jansvenungsson.com/by/imtexte.html   (2424 words)

  
 Surrealist Games
Unfortunately, we didn't have the Cyrano club in Paris to play them in, but we did have biology lessons.
The more surreal the elements are, the less likely it is they will fit together well.
This must have been the game that the unholy child Consequences was born from.
http://www.tombell.net/sgames.html   (1187 words)

  
 The Observer Review The Miller's tale
The first act is an exercise in nearly ceaseless name-dropping, as our heroine abandons her home town of Poughkeepsie, New York, for an interwar Paris which is happily awash in aesthetes: Cocteau, Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Paul Eluard.
While Edward Kemp's book attempts to make something coherent from what are essentially six protracted snapshots, Jason Carr's music suggests the musical pointillism of Stephen Sondheim's similarly artistically themed Sunday in the Park with George.
Standing out from a pretty high-flown pack is fellow photographer Man Ray (well sung by Teddy Kempner), who adopts Miller as his muse (and lover) when not quoting the Surrealist Manifesto
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1534950,00.html   (318 words)

  
 andre breton (important to patti smith)
An additional link between Patti Smith and Breton is found in Marjorie Allessandrini's Le rock au féminin, where Patti is quoted as having said '76 that she believed in coincidences, what Breton calls "hasard objectif." Breton's theory about "objective chance encounters"
For instance, Breton recalls the story behind his friendship with French poet Eluard: He was attending a theater play, when someone came up to him, tried to say something, then left after a confused apology ("I thought you were a friend of mine, who passed away during the [first world] war").
It started when, with the help of French poet Philippe Soupault, he developed the concept of automatic writing.
http://www.oceanstar.com/patti/bio/breton.htm   (456 words)

  
 Surrealism and Surrealist Film
Andre Breton was the writer and founder of the Surrealist movement.
http://www.msu.edu/course/ha/240/dali.htm   (80 words)

  
 surrealist documents: Hillary Booth, The Phantom of Liberty
In the first Surrealist Manifesto (1924) there appeared a description of the methods of automatic writing entitled: 'Secrets of the Magic Surrealist Art', which does indeed strike one with a 'magical' quality akin to the processes undertaken by the occultist (but for very different purposes, as will be discussed later).
Rather, the contradiction between the two is keenly felt, and whilst struggling to overcome this disparity once and for all (on a social level), the mechanisms of automatism are used to scrupulously examine the inner workings of the individual.
For example, to avoid hesitation, "place a letter, any letter, l for example, always the letter l, and restore the arbitrary flux by making that letter the initial of the word to follow."
http://www.surrealcoconut.com/surrealist_documents/booth.htm   (2172 words)

  
 Surrealist Manifesto 1929
I do not believe in the establishment of a conventional Surrealist pattern any time in the near future.
Breton's 1929 Surrealist Manifesto, written after Nadja was introduced to readers, states three central conditions:
Whether we like it or not, there is enough there to satisfy several demands of the mind.
http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/english/subcultures/colors/blue/e0mico01/1929.htm   (297 words)

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