In 1936, Salvador Dalí made a window display for Bonwit Teller department store and he wasn’t the only Surrealist to make a storefront appearance; in 1945, Marcel Duchamp arranged copies of a book by ...
In October 1924, French writer André Breton published what’s now known as the Surrealist Manifesto. The seminal text—which ...
Breton turned it into a philosophy. The latter defined it as a combination of opposites that would create a higher reality, encompassing the irrational and the rational, dream and reality, art and ...
A history of the ‘exquisite corpse’ in art shows how it embodies surrealist ideas of freedom, community and radical ...
Breton's text was the catalyst for what would become one of 20th century art's most recognisable movements, said Hettie Judah in The Guardian, inspiring artists including Salvador Dalí ...
One hundred years ago this October, André Breton wrote his first Surrealist ... the Fondation Cartier from 12 October. The Colombian artist explored many techniques, including weaving and the ...