Contemporary art wouldn’t be the same without Surrealism. In 1924, when French writer, poet, and critic André Breton ...

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 ...

The only known manuscript of the French poet Andre Breton's "Manifeste du surrealisme," the founding text of the Surrealist movement, is to be offered for sale later this month, auctioneers ...

André Breton—theorist, poet, novelist, editor, and author of the 1924 Surrealist Manifesto—famously defined surrealism as “psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to ...

Writer Andre Breton, founder of the surrealist movement, spent a lifetime filling his apartment with trinkets and treasures _ from butterflies on stickpins to tribal masks to paintings by Magritte ...

As an artistic movement, surrealism has never been easy to define. French author André Breton described it in his 1924 "Surrealist Manifesto" as a "pure psychic automatism [intended] to express ...

André Breton, Surrealist Manifesto (1924), first edition. Brought by Librairie Lardanchet.

Scott McLemee looks ahead to some ‘promisingly weird’ books from university presses due out this fall. Weirdness is in the eye of the beholder and whether to avoid it or seek it out, a matter of ...

The year 2024 marks Surrealism’s centenary: André Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism was published in October 1924, and a copy of the book features in the massive show celebrating the movement at ...