André Breton

...distinguished American anthropologist Franz Boas. He also became part of a circle of artists and Surrealists, including Max Ernst, Andre Breton and Sartre's future mistress, Dolores Vanetti. Vanetti, who shared his "passion for objects,"...

In this article: Claude Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, University of Paris, Tristes Tropiques, France, Philosophy, Edmund Leach, and Paris

...Latin American poetry. There are new corrected and augmented editions of both. He has also translated into Spanish the works of Andre Breton, Saint-John Perse, William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens. In 1957 he founded the...

In this article: Jorge Luis Borges, Guillermo Sucre, University of Pittsburgh, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Jose Antonio Ramos Sucre, William Carlos Williams, and Saint-John Perse

...lifes, and his intuitive recognition of surrealist juxtapositions. The surrealist tone of his work, recognized by Max Ernst and Andre Breton, is its most persistent quality. A prime example: In 1939, he obtained some chicken parts from his...

In this article: Frederick Sommer, Art museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, University of Delaware, and Max Ernst

...friends. The painter Max Ernst, who became her lover, introduced her to Andre Breton and the surrealists. She refused to kowtow to Breton, whose misogyny was legendary, and didn't become a member of the group, but was still included...

In this article: Leonor Fini, Paris, Jean Cocteau, Margot Fonteyn, Dora Maar, Max Ernst, and Brigitte Bardot

His breakthrough came in the 1940s, partly by way of his contact with the Surrealists in wartime exile in New York City, especially Andre Breton and Roberto Matta. Gorky had been borrowing Surrealist imagery for years, and he flourished in...

In this article: Maxim Gorky, Roberto Matta, Pablo Picasso, Arshile Gorky, New York City, Paul Cezanne, and Philadelphia Museum of Art

...to Breton and others were published in a volume entitled Lettres de guerre (1919), for which Breton wrote four introductory essays. In 1919 Breton founded the review Litterature with Louis Aragon and Philippe Soupault. He also...

In this article: Philippe Soupault, Mexico City, Paris, Rene Crevel, World War II, Diego Rivera, Paul Eluard, Jacques Vache, and Aime Cesaire

...which appeared sporadically between 1930 and 1933. In 1933, publisher Albert Skira contacted Breton about a new journal, which he planned to be the most luxurious art and literary review the Surrealists had seen, featuring a slick...

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...and structure, was for a time regarded as a hanging offence among the surrealists. Such rules were enforced by the writer Andre Breton, who dominated the group with an authoritarianism that may seem odd when its stated aim was to overthrow...

In this article: Salvador Dali, Jean-Francois Millet, Pablo Picasso, Michelangelo, and Authoritarianism

...of Oxford University welcomed the news, suggesting that it signalled a renewal interest in Breton as a hugely influential thinker and artist. "Breton is often written off as the pompous 'pope' of Surrealism, but he was actually a writer of...

In this article: Paris, Liberalism, Us-led Invasion Of Iraq, Oxford University, Paul Verlaine, Paul Eluard, and Robert Desnos

...have been amused rather than annoyed. Art historians and critics are puzzled and angry. The only known complete manuscript of Breton's Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 - one of the most influential documents in modern art - will be sold by...

In this article: Sotheby's, Art historians, Paul Verlaine, Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Gustave Flaubert, and Andre Gide