La Lectura has access to one of the lesser-known portraits of Dalí, created by Man Ray in 1936 and that has remained hidden ...

In October 1924, French writer André Breton published what’s now known as the Surrealist Manifesto. The seminal text—which argued for a new style of art and literature that would be “free ...

In the first “surrealist manifesto” — an explanatory booklet published in Paris in October 1924 which outlined the group’s ideals — Breton called for a revolution in thinking ...

Besides Breton’s manifesto, there was another “Manifesto of Surrealism,” written by the poet Yvan Goll, the leader of another Surrealist faction, and published a month before Breton’s.

Surrealism itself, however rooted in the popular imagination as an art world freak show, arrived with a very specific origin: the 1924 publication of the “Surrealist Manifesto” by French poet ...

Breton wrote in the second Manifesto of Surrealism in 1929 that “the simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull ...

It's a century since André Breton's Manifesto of Surrealism advocated a "mode of pure expression… dictated by thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason".

In October 1924, French writer André Breton published what’s now known as the Surrealist Manifesto. The seminal text—which argued for a new style of art and literature that would be “free ...