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 ...
André Breton thereafter carried the flame – indeed, Max Ernst used to say: ‘Breton is Surrealism.’ But Breton was a pompous, humourless, schoolmasterly bore who tried to run Surrealism like the SWP.
From Surrealist manifestos to a New York It Girl's visual diary, here are our picks of the best art books to read now.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Two Cape Breton snowmobilers who went missing in the depths of the Cape Breton Highlands between Friday and Saturday are now home safe and recovering from their ordeal. Dave Metcalfe and Hughie Whalen ...
The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist ...
Erotic, animistic, a gender-bending visual double-entendre: Ithell Colquhoun’s painting Scylla exemplifies many of the lifelong passions of its creator, “the lost surrealist”. Stare at the ...