Breton’s surrealism, on the other hand, is both idealistic and ideological. It prescribes certain artistic practices—automatism—for certain aesthetic and social ends. The word “surrealism ...

Surrealism offered a new perspective ... He was one of the first to devote himself to "écriture automatique," or automatism, ...

This learning model mirrors techniques that are discernable in Surrealist automatism, Situationist psychogeography and Allan Kaprow’s Happenings. Namely, a New Directions student is largely ...