June 16, 2020

Surrealism, various interviews

Type in Surrealism in a major search engine and, as of this writing, you get over 55 million hits.

Which is in itself surreal as Andre Breton is his Surrealist Manifesto writes that Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations.

So a search engine by its very nature concretizes or makes real, associations.

Breton and the surrealists would be proud!

I have compiled a small list of interviews or articles about surrealism or with surrealists below:

Surrealism: The Big Ideas presented by the Dali Museum
Salvador Dali interview with Mike Wallace 1958
Dali on the Dick Cavett show
Interviews with Paul Eluard (mostly French)
Interviews with Andre Breton (mostly French)
Interview with Louis Aragon (French)
Europe of Cultures interview with Tristan Tzara
Tzara on film (French)
Essays by what some consider the person who coined the term Surrealism: Apollinaire
Audio documentary on Robert Desnos (French)
Luis Bunuel interview (French)
Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry has many examples of French surrealism