André Breton

André Breton was born in 1896 in Tinchebray, in the Orne. Linked with Philippe Soupault, with whom he practised automatic writing, he published in 1924 the manifesto that established him as the theorist and leader of Surrealism. A member of the Communist Party from 1927 until his expulsion in 1933, he drafted in 1938, with Leon Trotsky, a manifesto for an independent revolutionary art, spent the Second World War in exile in the United States, returned to Paris after the war and died there in 1966.

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