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Manifesto of Surrealism

Also Known As Manifeste du surrealisme · Surrealist Manifesto

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Manifesto of Surrealism (Manifeste du surrealisme) is Andre Breton's 1924 text founding and defining Surrealism, published in Paris by Editions du Sagittaire. It defines surrealism as psychic automatism, the attempt to express the actual functioning of thought free of reason's control or any aesthetic or moral concern, and it became the movement's accepted charter over a rival manifesto issued the same month.

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from 1924 1
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Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express, verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner, the actual functioning of thought.
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