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:''[[What is Surrealism?]]'', a [[1934]] lecture by [[André Breton]]. :''[[What is Surrealism?]]'', a [[1934]] lecture by [[André Breton]].
-'''Proto-Surrealism''' is a term used for [[Surrealism]] [[avant-la-lettre]]. +'''Proto-Surrealism''' is a term used for [[Surrealism]] [[avant-la-lettre]], a sensibility best described as [[fantastique]].
Thought of as the effort of humanity to liberate imagination as an act of insurrection against society, Surrealism finds precedents in the [[alchemy|alchemists]], possibly [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]], [[Hieronymus Bosch]], [[Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade|Marquis de Sade]], [[Charles Fourier]], [[Comte de Lautreamont]] and [[Arthur Rimbaud]]. Thought of as the effort of humanity to liberate imagination as an act of insurrection against society, Surrealism finds precedents in the [[alchemy|alchemists]], possibly [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]], [[Hieronymus Bosch]], [[Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade|Marquis de Sade]], [[Charles Fourier]], [[Comte de Lautreamont]] and [[Arthur Rimbaud]].

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What is Surrealism?, a 1934 lecture by André Breton.

Proto-Surrealism is a term used for Surrealism avant-la-lettre, a sensibility best described as fantastique.

Thought of as the effort of humanity to liberate imagination as an act of insurrection against society, Surrealism finds precedents in the alchemists, possibly Dante, Hieronymus Bosch, Marquis de Sade, Charles Fourier, Comte de Lautreamont and Arthur Rimbaud.

The immediate predecessor was Dada: collaborators included Hugo Ball (German actor and playwright); Jean Arp (Alsatian artist); Tristan Tzara (Rumanian poet); Marcel Janco (Rumanian artist); and Richard Huelsenbeck (a German poet).

Earlier examples include Bracelli.

List of proto-surrealists

Quoted from the first Surrealist Manifesto
  • Young's Nights are Surrealist from one end to the other; unfortunately it is a priest who is speaking, a bad priest no doubt, but a priest nonetheless.
  • Swift is Surrealist in malice,
  • Sade is Surrealist in sadism.
  • Chateaubriand is Surrealist in exoticism.
  • Constant is Surrealist in politics.
  • Hugo is Surrealist when he isn't stupid.
  • Desbordes-Valmore is Surrealist in love.
  • Bertrand is Surrealist in the past.
  • Rabbe is Surrealist in death.
  • Poe is Surrealist in adventure.
  • Baudelaire is Surrealist in morality.
  • Rimbaud is Surrealist in the way he lived, and elsewhere.
  • Mallarmé is Surrealist when he is confiding.
  • Jarry is Surrealist in absinthe.
  • Nouveau is Surrealist in the kiss.
  • Saint-Pol-Roux is Surrealist in his use of symbols.
  • Fargue is Surrealist in the atmosphere.
  • Vaché is Surrealist in me.
  • Reverdy is Surrealist at home.
  • Saint-Jean-Perse is Surrealist at a distance.
  • Roussel is Surrealist as a storyteller.




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