André Breton

Louis XIV ordered André le Nôtre to build the gardens years before the rebuilding of the château itself, and the park and the gardens truly disclose the significance of the palace, the court, and the nature of absolutism. Le Nôtre erected more than 50 fountains and hundreds of sculptures, and there are overall 365 hectares of gardens. Louis XIV embedded his royal authority in the aesthetic of the royal gardens, and he made it both material manifestations and symbolic legitimations of his divine,…

Historical concepts and historians’ ideas of modernity each show varied ways of how, when, where and why the period that is now labeled “Modernity” came to be, with some, especially historical writings pre-1990s, holding the more Eurocentric outlook that modernity can be characterised as a ‘product of Europe’. Historians such as Prasenjit Duara, Michael Adas, Antoine-Nicolas de Condorcet, C. Delisle Burns and Edward B. Taylor hold this idea of modernity coming from Europe through means such as…

Fancy Title In his 1963 essay, “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem,” philosopher Erich Fromm argues that disobedience to authority started human history and blind obedience may cause its destruction. Fromm’s view on obedience to authority is that when we obey authority, even when it goes against our own reasoning and morals, then that obedience is cowardly and destructive while any act affirming individual will and autonomy is an act of freedom. Humanity could easily destroy…

When it comes to the topic of laws, most of us will readily agree that breaking the laws is unjust. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of if there is ever a time when a law can acceptably be broken. Whereas some are convinced that laws should never be broken, others maintain that there are some instances where laws should be broken. Socrates and Antigone would agree with the statement that disobeying laws is never the answer. Likewise, I have always believed that…

Payne, Austin English IV, 4th hour December 7, 2015 Paper The Prologue of The Canterbury Tales During the time of The Canterbury Tales the church people are supposed to follow certain rules that put them right with god. The four rules are considered as vows. The four vows are: poverty, stability, chastity, and obedience. The vow of poverty is about not being attached to such world such as garments or jewelry. The vow of stability is about focusing on god, day on and day off. The vow of…

came to the Surrealist movement in art, the leader of that movement was more easily identifiable. It was Andre Breton, who also found fame later as a French poet. Yet when one mentioned Surrealism in art, the first name that came to the minds of most art critics and students of art history was that of Salvador Dali, not Andre Breton. This was an ironical state of affairs because Andre Breton and the Surrealists had formally expelled Salvador Dali from their art movement in 1939. They could…

Political ideologies like communism and socialism had influenced the (Breton) movement. Robert Short in the article The Politics of Surrealism, 1920-36 says, “The interest of the movement’s political history lies in its tenacious efforts, set forth in highly articulate polemic writing, to associate its intellectual, artistic…

father of Surrealism, André Breton. In his literary work, The Manifesto of Surrealism (1924), Breton described the marvelous as “always beautiful.” He continued to reiterate this association between the marvelous and beauty throughout the manifesto by stating that “anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.” This simplistic definition of the marvelous as beauty provided a vague foundation in which Breton built upon in his work, Mad Love (1937). Breton established…

In the article “Manifesto of Surrealism,” Andre Breton says “[dreams] help us achieve a sense of fulfillment that reality steals from most people.” By using dreams as a gateway to achieving a sense of fulfillment we may get obsessive over dreaming, which can cause a conflict with reality since we will…

As any paranoiac, the artist should allow these images to reach the conscience, and then do what the paranoiac cannot do: Freeze them on canvas to give consciousness the opportunity to comprehend their meaning (Bell, 1984). Later on, he expanded the process into the Oniric-Critical Method, in which the artist pays attention to his dreams, freezing them through art, and analyzing them as well. As Freud said, “A dream that is not interpreted is like a letter that is not opened (Bell, 1984).…