Surrealism
context: political
- André Breton’s lecture (June 1934)
- anti-Fascist (re: Hitler & Mussolini)
- “role of fascism to re-establish for the time being the tottering supremacy of finance-capital”
- anti-bourgeois & critical of capitalist society
- “hypocrisy & cynicism have now lost all sense of proportion & are becoming more outrageous…”
- aim: “to detach the intellectual creator from illusions with which bourgeois society has sought to surround him”