Manifesto of Surrealism (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: André Breton
- First Published: 1924
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: France or French people, Psychology or psychologists, Surrealism, Europe or Europeans, Art or artists, Poetry or poets, Dreams, 1920’s, Bankruptcy or financial crisis, Painting or painters, Psychotherapy or psychotherapists
Critical Evaluation:
The main goal of André Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism is, quite simply, to free one’s mind from the past and from everyday reality so one can arrive at truths one has never known. By the time Breton wrote his manifesto, French poets—including Breton himself—and artists had already demonstrated Surrealist techniques in their work. In this sense, Breton was intent on explaining what painters and poets such as Giorgio de Chirico, Joan Miró, Robert Desnos, Max Ernst, and Breton himself had already achieved.
When Breton was a medical...
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