false 4349111 1 Aptly described by playwright Eugene Ionesco as "one of the four or five great reformers of modern thought", Andre Breton (1896-1966) was the founder and prime mover of Surrealism, the most influential artistic and literary movement of the 20th century. Poet and theorist, artistic impresario and political agitator, Breton was a man of paradoxical character: inspiring one moment, crushingly tyrannical the next; embracing friends like Brunuel, Dali, Duchamp, Miro, Man Ray, Aragon and Eluard, only to exile them as enemies later. From its emergence from Dada after World War I through its culmination in the 1960s, here is the Surrealist world in detail. 4397046 25 11 2008 Revolution of the Mind, Revised Edition: The Life of Andre Breton 0 0 4 0 0 0 false false Fri Jul 31 07:07:04 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 07:07:07 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jul 15 19:07:45 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 19:07:45 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Dec 08 10:20:31 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 10:20:31 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Aug 22 21:29:57 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 21:29:57 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4349111