Surrealist Manifesto

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The Surrealist Manifesto is André Breton’s 1924 foundational text that defined the principles and aims of the Surrealist movement in art and literature.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Surrealist text
literary manifesto
aimsTo free imagination from rational control
transform human experience
unite dream and reality
associatedWith Paris Surrealist group
avant-garde
author André Breton
countryOfOrigin France
dateWritten 1924
declares Surrealism as a means of accessing the unconscious
Surrealism as a revolutionary movement
declaresBretonRole Pope of Surrealism
linked to: André Breton
defines aims of the Surrealist movement
principles of Surrealism
followedBy Second Surrealist Manifesto
historicalContext interwar period
post–World War I Europe
influenced 20th-century avant-garde movements
Surrealist literature
linked to: Surrealism

Surrealist visual art
inspiredBy Sigmund Freud
psychoanalysis
keyConcept fusion of dream and reality
liberation of the mind
pure psychic automatism
rejection of bourgeois values
rejection of rationalism
superior reality of dream
literaryGenre essay
manifesto
non-fiction
mentions Alfred Jarry
Arthur Rimbaud
Lautréamont
movement Surrealism
movementFoundedBy André Breton
originalLanguage French
philosophicalTradition Romanticism (as influence)
linked to: Romanticism

anti-rationalism
placeOfWriting Paris
publicationYear 1924
subject art
automatic writing
dreams
literature
poetry
the unconscious
title Manifeste du surréalisme

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Surrealism hasManifesto Surrealist Manifesto
André Breton notableFor Surrealist Manifesto
André Breton notableWork Manifesto of Surrealism
linked to: Surrealist Manifesto
André Breton signatureWork Surrealist Manifesto (1924)
linked to: Surrealist Manifesto
Surrealist Manifesto title Manifeste du surréalisme
linked to: Surrealist Manifesto