Breton’s preoccupation with the orphic arts dated to the Second Surrealist Manifesto of 1929, which demanded “the occultation of surrealism,” but the formulas of sorcery and spells were uncomfortable ...

A century on from André Breton publishing his manifesto (well, the first), the Surrealist movement is very much alive and kicking. For proof, note the flurry of exhibitions, the $120 million paid ...

If you’ve never seen surrealist film before, you’ll never forget your first Lynch. I’ve polled my family, friends, friends-of-friends, professors and strangers, and here’s what they remember about ...

From Surrealist manifestos to a New York It Girl's visual diary, here are our picks of the best art books to read now.

In The Neverending Story: Part II, curated by Bob Colacello, the Vito Schnabel Gallery continues to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the movement launched in Paris in 1924, with the French poet ...

Six years earlier, Marinetti had published the Futurist Manifesto, declaring ... as a kind of anarchic scout leader and André Breton, Surrealism’s founder, comes across as a work-shy ...

André Breton, the author of the 1924 “Surrealist Manifesto,” treated the wounded as a junior doctor and could never unhear their incoherent babbling and trauma-tinged dreams. Felt from neutra ...

Breton's first Surrealist manifesto was written six years after the end of the war, but his experience of the conflict shaped his ideas. His fascination with violence suggests as much. His famous ...

The sale comes at the end of the Surrealist centenary celebrations – André Breton's first Surrealist manifesto was published in the autumn of 1924 – and the three works have not been seen in museum ...

André Breton (1896–1966) was one of the founders and most controversial exponents of Surrealism, defining the movement in his first Surrealist Manifesto as “pure psychic automatism.” Fleeing from ...