![]() ![]() More constructive than its predecessor, Dadaism, Surrealism appealed to Avant-garde artists such as Man Ray, Francis Picabia, Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró, whom Breton himself considered to be the most surreal of the Surrealists. As well as vindicating the role that chance plays in the creative process, Surrealism in painting and sculpture was also described as a visual manifestation of poetry. The publication in 1924 of Breton’s own Surrealist Manifesto, was a call for a change in art. Each chapter ends at the point when the author stopped writing at the end of the day. The actual structure of the book illustrates its purpose of writing down the natural momentum of thought. Thoughts were thus threaded together, the only link being those established by the writer’s own subconscious. ![]() The book was written using so-called “automatic writing”, in which ones thoughts were allowed to flow freely, transcribing them onto paper with no kind of rational, moral or stylistic censorship. In 1920, the French poet and essayist André Breton co-wrote with the author Philippe Soupault, the book “Les Champs Magnetiques” (The Magnetic Fields). ![]()
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