Two Surrealist
Manifestos
were issued by the Surrealist movement, in 1924 and 1929. The first was
written by André Breton, the second was supervised by him. Breton
drafted a third Surrealist manifesto which was never issued.
Breton wrote the manifesto of 1924 that defines the purposes of the
group. He included citations of the influences on Surrealism, examples of
Surrealist works and discussion of Surrealist automatism. He defined Surrealism
as:
Dictionary: Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by
which one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other
manner, the real functioning of thought. Dictation of thought in the absence of
all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation.
Encyclopedia: Surrealism. Philosophy. Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principal problems of life.[6]
Encyclopedia: Surrealism. Philosophy. Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principal problems of life.[6]
[edit] La Révolution
surréaliste
Shortly after releasing the first Surrealist Manifesto, the
Surrealists published the inaugural issue of La Révolution surréaliste.
Publication continued into 1929. As the first directors, Naville and Péret
modeled the format of the journal on the conservative scientific review La Nature.
To the Surrealists' delight, the journal was consistently scandalous and
revolutionary. While the focus was on writing, the journal also included
reproductions of art, among them works by Giorgio de Chirico, Ernst, Masson, and Man Ray.
[edit] Bureau of
Surrealist Research
The Bureau of Surrealist Research (Centrale Surréaliste) was the center
for Surrealist writers and artists to meet, hold discussions, and conduct
interviews. They investigated speech under trance.
