Second Surrealist Manifesto

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The Second Surrealist Manifesto is André Breton’s later, more radical statement of Surrealist principles, expanding and sharpening the movement’s political and philosophical commitments beyond those outlined in his original manifesto.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Surrealist text
literary manifesto
aimsTo clarify Surrealism’s philosophical foundations
define Surrealism’s revolutionary role
sharpen Surrealism’s political commitments
alsoKnownAs Second Manifesto of Surrealism
associatedWith French avant-garde
interwar period
author André Breton
countryOfOrigin France
criticizes apolitical artistic practice
bourgeois culture
purely aesthetic art
emphasizes liberation of desire
subversion of rationalism
transformation of everyday life
unity of poetry and revolution
expandsOn First Surrealist Manifesto
follows First Surrealist Manifesto
genre aesthetic theory
literary criticism
nonfiction
political essay
historicalContext between World War I and World War II
influenced 20th-century art theory
later Surrealist theory
politically engaged art movements
intendedAudience artists and writers
politically engaged intellectuals
keyFigure André Breton
language French
literaryMovement avant-garde literature
modernism
medium print
movement Surrealism
philosophicalOrientation anti-idealism
dialectical materialism
materialism
politicalOrientation left-wing
revolutionary
relatedWork Mad Love
Nadja
subject Freudian psychoanalysis
Marxism
Surrealist principles
automatic writing
politics and art
revolutionary aesthetics
role of the artist
unconscious mind

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Surrealist Manifesto followedBy Second Surrealist Manifesto
Second Surrealist Manifesto alsoKnownAs Second Manifesto of Surrealism
linked to: Second Surrealist Manifesto