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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Magic Art, by André Breton.Fulgar Press. A foreword by Robert Shehu-Ansell explains Magic Art was first available in 1957, when it was printed as part of a subscription edition of a thematic series of ...