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Literary and art movement influenced by Freudianism and dedicated to the expression of imagination as revealed in dreams, free of the conscious control of reason and free of convention. The movement was founded (1924) in Paris by André Breton, with his Manifeste du surréalisme, but its ancestry is traced to the French poets Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and to the Italian painter, Giorgio de Chirico.

Subcategories

• Chirico, Giorgio de
• Dali, Salvador
• Ernst, Max
• Escher, M. C.
• Giacometti, Alberto
• Kahlo, Frida
• Magritte, René
• Matta, Roberto
• Miró, Joan
• Ray, Man
• Rousseau, Henri
• Tanguy, Yves
• Varo, Remedios

Resources in This Category

• Andre Breton-What is Surrealism?

  http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/~fa1871/whatsurr.html
  A lecture given in Brussels on 1st June 1934 at a public meeting organised by the Belgian Surrealists, and issued as a pamphlet immediately afterwards

• Bibliography of Surrealism

  http://www.madsci.org/~lynn/juju/surr/bio/surrealist-bio.html
  Extensive collection of books about Surrealism.

• Biddington's: Surrealism.

  http://biddingtons.com/content/pedigreesurreal.html
  A concise description of the 20th century visual arts and literary movement Surrealism at Biddington's Pedigree and Provenance.

• Dada and Surrealism: Texts and Extracts

  http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/~fa1871/surrext.html
  By Gerry Carlin and Mair Evans.

• History of Surrealism

  http://www.gosurreal.com/history.htm
  Good introduction to Surrealism maintained by Monica Sanchez.

• Hungryflower

  http://www.hungryflower.com/leonreme.html
  Surrealist painters' links and biographies, including Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Ana Mendieta, and Francesca Woodman.

• Research Centre for Studies of Surrealism

  http://www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk/
  Centre promotes research excellence in studies of dada and surrealism and their impact on modern thought and culture.

• Surrealism.org

  http://www.surrealism.org/
  Brief article and biographies of well known surrealists.

• Surrealist.com

  http://www.surrealist.com/
  Surrealism, surrealist, surreal, art, literature, music, dada, dadaism, and everything else.

• The Surrealists Website

  http://www.surrealists.co.uk/
  Information about the movement of the early 20th century. Artist biographies, surrealist manifesto, history and galleries.

• Wikipedia: Surrealism

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism
  Encyclopedia article about the movement. Includes the founding, history and social/political impact.

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