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Surrealism
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SURREALISM, n. Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express—verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner—the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.
ENCYCLOPEDIA. Philosophy. Surrealism is based in the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected association, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principal problems of life.
André Breton, Manifestoes of Surrealism, 1924 trans. Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane (Ann Arbor, 1969), p. 26.
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Cover of the first issue of La Révolution surréaliste, December 1924.
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La Révolution surréaliste 12, ed. André Breton (Paris, December 15, 1929), cover.
La Révolution surréaliste 12, ed. André Breton (Paris, December 15, 1929), p. 1.
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KEY ARTISTS
Jean Arp Louis Aragon André Breton
Luis Buñuel Jean Cocteau
Salvador Dalí Max Ernst
René Magritte André Masson
Joan Miró Man Ray Yves Tanguy
Paul Delvaux
Dorothea Tanning Tristan Tzara
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Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí An Andalusian Dog, 1929
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André Masson. Automatic Drawing. 1924. Ink on paper, 23.5 x 20.6 cm. Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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Joan MiróThe Tilled Field, 1923–24 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
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Joan Miró Woman and Bird, 1982Barcelona, Spain
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René MagritteThe Menaced Assassinб 1927Oil on canvas, 150.4 cm × 195.2 cmMuseum of Modern Art, New York
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René Magritte"This is not a pipe." The Treachery of Images 1928–29
Oil on canvas, 63.5 cm × 93.98 cmLos Angeles County Museum of Art
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René Magritte The Human Condition, 1933Oil on canvas, 100 cm × 81 cmNational Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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René Magritte The Human Condition, 1935Oil on canvas, 100 cm × 81 cmSimon Spierer Collection, Geneva, Switzerland
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René Magritte Not to Be Reproduced, 1937Oil on canvas, 81.3 cm × 65 cmMuseum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
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René Magritte Time Transfixed, 1938Oil on canvas, 147 cm × 98.7 cmArt Institute of Chicago
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Salvador Dalí Atomic Leda, 1949
Oil on canvas, 61.00 x 46.00 cm. Fundation Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres,
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Salvador DalíGalatea of the Spheres, 1952
Oil on canvas, 65.00 x 54.00 cm. Fundation Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres,
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Salvador DalíFace of Mae West Which Can Be Used as an Apartment (instalation)c.1974
Fundation Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres,
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Salvador Dalí Venus de Milo aux tiroirs1964
Bronze, 98.50 x 32.50 cm. Fundation Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres,
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Max ErnstThe Wood, 1927Grattage, 60.5 cm × 81.5 cmNational Museum Cardiff, Wales
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Max ErnstL'Ange du Foyer ou le Triomphe du Surréalisme, 1937Private collection.
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Max Ernst A Week of Kindness
All five of the original volumes of Une semaine de bonté
First published in 1934. It comprises 182 images created by cutting up and re-organizing illustrations from Victorian encyclopedias and novels
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First bookSunday
Mud
Second bookMonday
Water
Third bookTuesday
Fire
Fourth bookWednesday
Blood
Fifth bookThursday
BlacknessFriday
SightSaturday
Unknown
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Max Ernst A Week of KindnessPublished in 1934
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Max Ernst A Week of KindnessPublished in 1934
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Max Ernst A Week of KindnessPublished in 1934
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Man Ray Rayograph, 1922
Gelatin silver print (photogram)22.6 x 17.2 cmMoma
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Man Ray Rayograph, 1922
Gelatin silver print (photogram)23.9 x 29.9 cm Moma
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Méret Elisabeth Oppenheim Object, 1936,
Museum of Modern Art
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DorotheaTanningPoppy Hotel, Room 202 1970-73Mixed media, 340 x 310 x 470 cm, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris