Title: El encuentro de Breton y Trotsky en México
Description: In April 1938, André Breton travelled to Mexico where he became acquainted and co-authored with Leon Trotsky the Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art,ʺ signed by André Breton and Diego Rivera. The International Federation of Independent Revolutionary Art (FIARI) was a short-lived organization established in 1938 following the publication of the manifesto by Rivera. This compilation comprises articles, letters, declarations and other documents that cover the paths towards the Manifesto for an independent revolutionary art written by artist André Breton, the main exponent of surrealism, and León Trotsky, revolutionary leader, when they met in Mexico City. Includes also other testimonies, reflections and debates about this meeting, several of them unpublished in Spanish before.
Subjects: Communism and art, Art criticism, Communism
People: Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)