Proclamation of surrealism

Manifeste of surrealism is the title of a text of André Breton which will write thereafter Second proclamation of surrealism .

  • Proclamation of surrealism , 1924, republished in 1929

  • Second proclamation of surrealism , 1930, republished in 1946.

These two texts accompanied by others, as from 1962, were published whole under the title: proclamations of surrealism .

Proclamation of surrealism (1924)

This document in the beginning was designed as a foreword with soluble Poisson which will be published the same year. Heteroclite, the text gathers various moments of writing which one can try to analyze. In her study, Elisabeth Kennel-Renaud counts 10 elements.

  • Homage to imagination
  • Lawsuit of the realistic novel
  • Call to amazement
  • Faith in the resolution of the conflict between dream and reality
  • Principle of the automatic writing
  • Definition of surrealism
  • surrealist Images
  • Joinings of fragments of sentences
  • nonconformist Attitude

Breton the Surréalisme defines: “Pure psychic Automatism by which one proposes to express, either verbally, or in writing, or in any other manner, the real operation of the thought in the absence of any control exerted by the reason, apart from any esthetic or moral concern”.

Republication of 1929

Reprinted without change in 1929, the Proclamation however was increased by a foreword and “Letter with conspicuous” of 1925.

Second proclamation of surrealism (1930)

In her study, Elisabeth Kennel-Renaud counts 8 elements.

  • factitious Caractère of the old discrepancies

  • surrealism does not claim of any morals
  • Critique certain surrealist a
  • Rappel of the bases
  • Appel with the social implication
  • Warning statement against the political endoctrination
  • Attirance for the esotericism
  • Refus of mercantile success

This Second proclamation received a shingling counterpart of Robert Desnos.

Warning for the republication of the second proclamation (1946)

With time, André Breton is done more human and tries to give in their respective contexts the conflicts which it could have with some artists. It keeps its positions however.

See too

External bonds

  • Cultures France
  • Via lupo, Verbatim
  • Billyjazz: Extracts of the Proclamation
  • University off HongKong, french
  • Evene.fr
  • Center Pompidou: Surrealist art, Chronology: 1924

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