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Manifeste du surréalisme
André Breton
Defines Surrealism as pure psychic automatism, arguing dream and the unconscious, not reasoned composition, are art's proper material.
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André Breton
Defines Surrealism as pure psychic automatism, arguing dream and the unconscious, not reasoned composition, are art's proper material.
William S. Rubin
Argues Dada's negations and Surrealism's exploration of the unconscious set the terms that later American art, from Abstract Expressionism to assemblage, kept answering.
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