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André Robert Breton (French: [ɑ̃dʁe ʁɔbɛʁ bʁətɔ̃]; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surréalisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism".
André Breton (born February 18, 1896, Tinchebray, France—died September 28, 1966, Paris) was a French poet, essayist, critic, and editor, chief promoter and one of the founders of the Surrealist movement.
André Breton has 263 books on Goodreads with 79408 ratings. André Breton’s most popular book is Nadja.
André Breton was an original member of the Dada group who went on to start and lead the Surrealist movement in 1924. In New York, Breton and his colleagues curated Surrealist exhibitions that introduced ideas of automatism and intuitive art making to the first Abstract Expressionists.
226 quotes from André Breton: 'My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.', 'Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.', and 'Tell me whom you haunt and I’ll tell you who you are.'
André Breton, né le 19 février 1896 [n 1] à Tinchebray dans l'Orne et mort le 28 septembre 1966 à Paris 10 e, est un poète et écrivain français, principal animateur et théoricien du surréalisme.
André Breton was born in 1896 to a family of shopkeepers in Tinchebray, a small town in Normandy, France. He studied medicine and psychiatry, displaying a special interest in mental illness. Though he never qualified as a psychoanalyst, he worked in neurological wards in Nantes during World War I,…
André Breton is primarily known as the co-founder of both Paris Dada and of Surrealism, yet he was also an important player in the burgeoning market in modern art in the 1920s.
Sep 28, 2011 · André Robert Breton (French: [ɑ̃dʁe ʁɔbɛʁ bʁətɔ̃]; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surréalisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism".
André Robert Breton (French: [ɑ̃dʁe ʁɔbɛʁ bʁətɔ̃]; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism.
