Political Surrealism: Anti-Fascist Activism and Leftist Engagement (1934–1945)

1. AEAR stages “Salon des peintres révolutionnaires”

   Jan 1, 1934Labels: AEAR, Salon des

   • AEAR FR
   • AEAR EN

2. Anti-fascist urgency after France’s February 1934 crisis

   Feb 1, 1934Labels: February 1934, Surrealist circles

   • Tracts 1934
   • Surrealism

3. Breton’s Brussels lecture ties surrealism to anti-fascism

   Jun 1, 1934Labels: Andr Breton, Brussels lecture

   • Gen Online
   • Breton bio

4. René Crevel dies amid political strain

   Jun 18, 1935Labels: Ren Crevel

   • Crevel

5. Writers convene Paris Congress to defend culture

   Jun 21, 1935Labels: Writers Congress, Paris 1935

   • Arts in Exile
   • Partisan Rev

6. Surrealists expelled from the 1935 writers’ congress

   Jun 23, 1935Labels: Surrealists, Ilya Ehrenburg

   • Crevel
   • Arts in Exile

7. Spanish Civil War becomes a key anti-fascist cause

   Jul 1, 1936Labels: Spanish Civil

   • Britannica
   • Surrealism

8. Paris hosts the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme

   Jan 17, 1938Labels: Exposition Internationale, Galerie Beaux-Arts

   • Paris Mus es
   • Expo 1938

9. Breton and Trotsky draft “Independent Revolutionary Art” manifesto

   Jul 25, 1938Labels: Andr Breton, Leon Trotsky

   • Manifesto EN
   • Manifesto ES

10. FIARI forms to organize independent revolutionary artists

    Sep 1, 1938Labels: FIARI, Diego Rivera

    • FIARI

11. Breton flees wartime France via Marseille relief networks

    Mar 25, 1941Labels: Marseille escape, Varian Fry

    • Breton bio
    • Varian Fry

12. Liberation of Europe closes the 1934–1945 activism chapter

    May 8, 1945Labels: Liberation of, May 1945

    • USHMM
    • Britannica