The French poet Andre Breton (1896-1966) launched the literature, art and cultural movement known as Surrealism in 1924 with his Manifesto of Surrealism. This beguiling manifesto proposed new ways ...

André Breton’s visit to the Hopi Mesas in August 1945, the month the United States dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, turned into a crossroads for him and for surrealism. This talk examines ...

The unconventional artistic rebellion of surrealism may seem a long way removed from the sober, disciplined work of Marxist revolutionaries. But French writer Pierre Naville brought surrealism and ...