On November 6 a small article in the French daily Libération announced that the contents of André Breton’s small flat at 42 rue Fontaine where he lived from 1922 until his death, near Pigalle in Paris ...

The death of Franklin Rosemont deserves some notice. He played an important role in popularising the work of poet André Breton for English-speaking audiences, while the foundation of the Chicago ...

The French government has declared the original manuscript of the Marquis de Sade's notorious novel a national treasure and forbidden its removal from France. Three books by Leonora Carrington, ...

The "Breton Wall" at the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, in Paris. © CENTRE POMPIDOU, MNAM-CCI/PHILIPPE MIGEAT/DIST. RMN-GP © ADAGP, PARIS, 2024 ...

A Gouro mask from Côte d’Ivoire, which was once owned by French surrealist writer and poet André Breton, sold for more than a million euros on Wednesday, making a new record for a Gouro mask. The mask ...

Author and illustrator Wanda Gág's Millions of Cats(1928) is considered the first American picture book and is still in print production today! (all images via public domain) Planning on sleeping in ...

The year 2024 marks Surrealism’s centenary: André Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism was published in October 1924, and a copy of the book features in the massive show celebrating the movement at ...

Writer Andre Breton, founder of the surrealist movement, spent a lifetime filling his apartment with trinkets and treasures _ from butterflies on stickpins to tribal masks to paintings by Magritte and ...

Surrealism, wrote the poet and polemicist André Breton, “is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1585): “Dadaglobe Reconstructed” is precisely the kind of show that the Museum of Modern Art should be doing, and very often has done of late. Memories of “Bjork” have pretty much been ...

One hundred years ago the French poet André Breton published his “Manifesto of Surrealism,” establishing a movement that was as influential in the 20th century as Romanticism had been in the preceding ...

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