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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]
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]
Max Ernst, The Elephant Celebes, 1921. The word surrealism was first coined in March 1917 by Guillaume Apollinaire. [10] He wrote in a letter to Paul Dermée: "All things considered, I think in fact it is better to adopt surrealism than supernaturalism, which I first used" [Tout bien examiné, je crois en effet qu'il vaut mieux adopter surréalisme que surnaturalisme que j'avais d'abord employé].
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 ...
According to the Social Security Administration, the most popular baby names of the 1920s were “taken from a universe that includes 11,372,808 male births and 12,402,235 female births.”
This is a partial list of 20th-century writers.This list includes notable artists, authors, philosophers, playwrights, poets, scientists and other important and noteworthy contributors to literature.