... the imagination as revealed in dreams, it was free of the conscious control of reason and free of convention, its emphasis was on positive expression. It flourished in Europe between World Wars I and II. Surrealism grew out of the earlier Dada movement. It was founded in 1924 in Paris by Andre Breton with his Manifeste du surrealism, according to him surrealism ... was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience, so completely that the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world, in an absolute reality ,a surreality. Surrealism becam...

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