Revolution of the Mind

Revolution of the Mind The Life of André Breton

Aptly described by playwright Eugene Ionesco as "one of the four or five great reformers of modern thought", Andre Breton (1896-1966) was the founder and prime mover of Surrealism, the most influential artistic and literary movement of the twentieth century. Poet and theorist, artistic impresario and political agitator, Breton was a man of paradoxical character: inspiring one moment, crushingly tyrannical the next; embracing friends like Bunuel, Dali, Duchamp, Miro, Man Ray, Aragon, and Eluard, only to exile them as enemies later. From its emergence from Dada after World War I through its culmination in the 1960s, here is the Surrealist world in fascinating detail.
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Simon Oosterdijk@mistero
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Mar 28, 2022