name: André Breton
birth_date: 1896-02-19 00:00:00
death_date: 1966-09-28 00:00:00
genres: Poetry, Arts & Photography, Literature & Fiction
influences: Lautréamont, Tristan Tzara, Marquis de Sade, Sigmund Fre, René Guénon, Dante, Giorgio de Chirico, Alfred Jarry, Karl Marx, Gérard de Nerval, Charles Baudelaire, Sigmund Freud, Rimbaud, Guillaume Apollinaire, Diderot
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about: After World War I, French poet and literary theorist André Breton began to link at first with Dadaism but broke with that movement to write the first manifesto of surrealism in 1924. People best know this theorist as the principal founder. His writings include the Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surréalisme), in which he defined this "pure psychic automatism." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3... After World War I, French poet and literary theorist André Breton began to link at first with Dadaism but broke with that movement to write the first manifesto of surrealism in 1924. People best know this theorist as the principal founder. His writings include the Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surréalisme), in which he defined this "pure psychic automatism." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3... ...more