Cover of Cavalier Perspective: Last Essays, 1952-1966 (2025) by André Breton, translated by Austin Carder (image courtesy City Lights Books) What does Surrealism, a major art movement in the 20th ...

On November 6 a small article in the French daily Libération announced that the contents of André Breton’s small flat at 42 rue Fontaine where he lived from 1922 until his death, near Pigalle in Paris ...

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?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A visitor looks at 'Magnetic Mountain' by Kurt Seligmann at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Sandrine Marty/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty ...

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 infamous ...

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, ...

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