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Surrealism

Early Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements

Surrealism was a cultural and literary movement that developed in Europe after the First World War, aiming to release the creative power of the unconscious mind through techniques such as automatic writing and startling, dreamlike imagery. Andre Breton's 1924 Manifesto of Surrealism, published alongside the founding of the magazine La Revolution surrealiste, gave the movement its name and program, and it went on to shape literature, theatre and film across many countries. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Partially Attested
Period, To (Year)
to 1969 1
The original Paris Surrealist Group, the movement's founding organized body under Andre Breton, was formally disbanded by member Jean Schuster in 1969. Surrealist practice itself continued elsewhere afterward (the Czech-Slovak Surrealist group never disbanded and a later Paris surrealist group formed), so 1969 marks the founding group's own end, not a claim that surrealism as a mode of writing and art stopped.
Period, From (Year)
from 1924 1
Surrealism
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Octavio Paz

Surrealism
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Associated Authors

Andre Breton, Authors
Source Andre Breton (Wikipedia)
Octavio Paz, Authors

Associated With

Manifesto of Surrealism, Works
Source Manifesto of Surrealism (Wikipedia)
Negritude, Movements

Literary history relation between named movements

Theatre of the Absurd, Movements

Literary history relation between named movements

Influenced

Magical Realism, Movements
New York School (Poetry), Movements
The Beat Generation, Movements

Literary history relation between named movements

The Latin American Boom, Movements

Influenced By

Dadaism, Movements
Symbolism, Movements
Sources
1. Surrealism (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)
  • Lead section
    Surrealism is an art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself.
  • Founding, October 1924
    However, the Surrealist movement was not officially established until after October 1924, when the Surrealist Manifesto published by Breton succeeded in claiming the term for his group.
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Andre Breton (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)Associated Authors: Andre Breton, Lead section
Quote, Associated Authors: Andre Breton, Lead section
was a French writer and poet, known as a principal theorist and co-founder of surrealism
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Manifesto of Surrealism (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)Associated With: Manifesto of Surrealism, Lead sectionView the Source
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