Excluded members launched a counterattack, sharply criticizing Breton in the pamphlet Un Cadavre, which featured a picture of Breton wearing a crown of thorns. The pamphlet drew upon an earlier act of subversion by likening Breton to Anatole France, whose unquestioned value Breton had challenged in Disgruntled surrealists moved to the periodical Documents, edited by Georges Bataille, whose anti-idealist materialism formed a hybrid Surrealism intending to expose the base instincts of humans.
To the dismay of many, Documents fizzled out in , just as Surrealism seemed to be gathering more steam. There were a number of reconciliations after this period of disunion, such as between Breton and Bataille, while Aragon left the group after committing himself to the French Communist Party in More members were ousted over the years for a variety of infractions, both political and personal, while others left in pursuit of their own style.
He was one of the few intellectuals who continued to offer his support to the FCL during the Algerian war when the FCL suffered severe repression and was forced underground.
He sheltered Fontenis whilst he was in hiding. Many important artists fled to North America and relative safety in the United States. The art community in New York City in particular was already grappling with Surrealist ideas and several artists like Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, and Robert Motherwell converged closely with the surrealist artists themselves, albeit with some suspicion and reservations.
Ideas concerning the unconscious and dream imagery were quickly embraced. However, it should not be easily forgotten that Abstract Expressionism itself grew directly out of the meeting of American particularly New York artists with European Surrealists self-exiled during World War II. In particular, Gorky and Paalen influenced the development of this American art form, which, as Surrealism did, celebrated the instantaneous human act as the well-spring of creativity.
The early work of many Abstract Expressionists reveals a tight bond between the more superficial aspects of both movements, and the emergence at a later date of aspects of Dadaistic humor in such artists as Rauschenberg sheds an even starker light upon the connection. Up until the emergence of Pop Art, Surrealism can be seen to have been the single most important influence on the sudden growth in American arts, and even in Pop, some of the humor manifested in Surrealism can be found, often turned to a cultural criticism.
The Second World War overshadowed, for a time, almost all intellectual and artistic production. After a long trip through the forests of British-Columbia, he settled in Mexico and founded his influential art-magazine Dyn.
The View special issue on Duchamp was crucial for the public understanding of Surrealism in America. Though the war proved disruptive for Surrealism, the works continued. Many Surrealist artists continued to explore their vocabularies, including Magritte. Many members of the Surrealist movement continued to correspond and meet. However, Conroy Maddox, one of the first British Surrealists whose work in this genre dated from , remained within the movement, and organized an exhibition of current Surrealist work in in response to an earlier show which infuriated him because it did not properly represent Surrealism.
He held his last one-man show in , and died three years later. Other figures from the Surrealist movement were expelled.
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