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Surrealism
Surrealism was a playful literary and artistic movement influenced by the work of Sigmund Freud filtered through early 20th century French psychology. Their were several Surrealist factions, but in the visual arts, the most influential of these was led by the poet André Breton. Artists and writers experimented with processes that allowed them to explore subconscious thought and identity and bypass social convention. The subconscious was seen a wellspring of creative invention and there were various strategies employed to exploit this, for example Salvador Dalí's paranoiac-critical activity, Yves Tanguy's dreamscapes, or André Masson's automatic drawing. Many European Surrealists went into exile with the rise of Nazism spreading its impact around the world. Surrealism proved so influential it continued to be invoked by artists well into the postwar era.
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The Case for Surrealism
Egyptian Surrealism, an introduction
Surrealist Techniques: Subversive Realism
Surrealist Techniques: Automatism
Surrealist Techniques: Collage
Surrealism and Psychoanalysis
Surrealism and Women
Surrealism, an introduction
Surrealism: Origins and Precursors
Surrealist Exhibitions
Surrealist Photography
Frida Kahlo, an introduction
Becoming modern in 19th-century Europe, an introduction
Surrealism: Imagining A New World
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