For the original surrealists, dreaming was not a matter of idle fantasy but a tool for political and social transformation.

The death of Franklin Rosemont deserves some notice. He played an important role in popularising the work of poet André Breton for English-speaking audiences, while the foundation of the Chicago ...

On November 6 a small article in the French daily Libération announced that the contents of André Breton’s small flat at 42 rue Fontaine where he lived from 1922 until his death, near Pigalle in Paris ...

Throckmorton Fine Art Inc. marks the centenary of Surrealism with exhibition featuring work by visionary photographers of the ...

Man, that inveterate dreamer, daily more discontent with his destiny, has trouble assessing the objects he has been led to use, objects that his nonchalance has brought his way. -- André Breton, ...

From the April, 1977 issue of High Times comes Rex Weiner’s interesting take on a 20th-century avant-garde movement. Dada was a defiant No to every thing but Me. If history may be seen as a metronome ...

Art history suffers from misconceptions that, once generated, achieve the pervasive power of “urban myths:” fictional accounts that reinforce popular [mis]understandings through endless and uncritical ...

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The more I think of it, the more I'd like to see this. You're standing on the sidewalk, and a small cafe or pub catches your eye. It's painted in deep, swirling color, not garish but bold -- emerald, ...