Originating in 1916 with the avant-garde Dada movement at the
famous Cafe Voltaire in Zurich, surrealism aimed to unleash the
powers of the creative act without thinking. Max Ernst, Andre
Breton, Tristan Tzara, Paul Eluard, Philippe Soupault, and Louis
Aragon created a movement that spread wildly to all corners of the
globe, inspiring not only poetry but also artists like Joan Miro
and Rene Magritte and cinematic works by Antonin Artaud, Luis
Bunuel, and Salvador Dali. As the editor, Mary Ann Caws, says,
"Essential to surrealist behavior is a constant state of openness,
of readiness for whatever occurs, whatever marvelous object we
might come across, manifesting itself against the already thought,
the already lived." Here are the gems of this major, mind-bending
aesthetic, political, and humane movement: writers as diverse as
Aragon, Breton, Dali, Rene Char, Robert Desnos, Mina Loy, Paul
Magritte, Alice Paalen, Gisele Prassinos, Man Ray, Kay Sage, and
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven are included here, providing a grand
picture of this revolutionary movement that shocked the world.
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