Proto-Surrealism
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| - | == List of proto-surrealists == | + | == See also == |
| - | :''Quoted from the first [[Surrealist Manifesto]] by [[André Breton]]'' | + | *[[Surrealist_Manifesto#List_of_proto-surrealists]] |
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| - | *[[Edward Young|Young]]'s ''[[Night Thoughts|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. | + | |
| - | *[[Benjamin Constant|Constant]] is Surrealist in politics. | + | |
| - | *[[Hugo]] is Surrealist when he isn't stupid. | + | |
| - | *[[Desbordes-Valmore]] is Surrealist in love. | + | |
| - | *[[Aloysius Bertrand|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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- What is Surrealism?, a 1934 lecture by André Breton.
Proto-Surrealism is a term used for Surrealism avant-la-lettre. Since the terms surrealism and surreal were coined only c. 1917, the surreal sensibility before that time was best described by the French term fantastique, which includes fantastic art.
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 and Lucian in the literary sphere.
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