This year marks the centenary of the Surrealist Manifesto, a pivotal text authored by the French writer and poet André Breton that kickstarted one of the 20th century’s most radical art movements.
It was the kind of feel-good mystery that one might encounter on "Antiques Roadshow." While Austinite Lars Frazer was growing up in Southern California, his rather buttoned-down stepfather — Richard ...
Breton was immediately captivated by the “scandalously beautiful” woman, as he later described Lamba in his 1937 Surrealist novella, L’Amour Fou (Mad Love). Breton, as we know, went on to ...
An exhibition about Surrealism calls for a dramatic, wrong-footing start, and the opening of this show marking the centenary of André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto is memorably unexpected.
“The book shows a journey of me developing my visual language as an artist through the very free environment of … fashion editorial,” he explains. His pop-surrealist style comes through in every image ...