Surrealism in Pirandello and Elizabeth Lecompte

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Surrealism was an artistic movement with a strong political component, Surrealism was the most highly organized and tightly controlled artistic movement in this century, and its moral and executive leader was Andr? Breton, given the unofficial title of the Pope of Surreali

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"Surrealism was an artistic movement with a strong political component, Surrealism was the most highly organized and tightly controlled artistic movement in this century, and its moral and executive leader was Andr? Breton, given the unofficial title of the Pope of Surrealism. Surrealism was also a life-style and a philosophical outlook that infused artistic expression, political action, and social life:

At the heart of Surrealism lay the belief that "objective chance"--by which was meant inexplicable coincidence--is central to reality, which is not an orderly system of events apprehensible by logical thought. Hence, it was believed, knowledge of true reality can be gained only through a-logical insights of the unconscious mind and these insights can only be..."

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