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Ciaran O'Driscoll (born 1943) - Irish surrealist poet; John Olson (born 1947) - American Surrealist poet and novelist; Valentine Penrose (1898–1978) - French surrealist poet, author, and collagist; Benjamin Péret (1899–1959) - French poet and a founder of the French Surrealist movement; Gisèle Prassinos (1920–2015) - French writer
The following poets were active in the Surrealist cultural movement that started in the 1920s. Pages in category "Surrealist poets" The following 87 pages are in this category, out of 87 total.
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. [1]
Octavio Paz characterized her poetry as in the "spiritual lineage" of surrealism. [12] Haifa Zangana (born 1950), Iraqi writer active in surrealist activity in London. [13] Unica Zürn (1916–1970), German writer and artist. She wrote anagram poetry, exhibited automatic drawing and collaborated with Hans Bellmer as his photographic model.
André Breton included two photographs of Desnos sleeping in his surrealist novel Nadja. [2] Although he was praised by Breton in his 1924 Manifeste du Surréalisme for being the movement's "prophet", Desnos disagreed with Surrealism's involvement in communist politics, which caused a rift between him and Breton. Desnos continued work as a ...
The name Betty, meaning "Oath of God," harks back to 1920s starlet Betty Blythe. Known for her risqué roles in The Queen of Sheba (1921) and She (1925). The actress sported the fourth most ...
Originally a French movement, which developed in the 1920s from Dadaism by André Breton with Philippe Soupault and influenced by surrealist painting, that uses surprising images and transitions to play off of formal expectations and depict the unconscious rather than conscious mind (surrealist automatism) [102]
Some baby names fall in and out of fashion, topping baby name charts and disappearing, only to appear again years later. Take the name James, the number three baby boy name of the 1920s.