Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney A century ago, French writer André Breton published a manifesto that would go on to become one of the most influential artistic ...

Yvan Goll was born in 1891. In his twenties, he moved to Paris, where he wrote antiwar poetry and absurdist drama, met Picasso and Chagall, and gorged himself on the era’s avant-garde buffet.

British artist and writer Ithell Colquhoun was a pioneer of Surrealist “automatism,” creating images from charcoal shavings or letting her unconscious take charge of a pen. Such methods had a ...