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 ...

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 ...

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

In his Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, the figurehead described Surrealism as: “pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other manner ...