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44-509: Mad Love may refer to: Books [ edit ] Mad Love (French L'amour fou ), collection of poems by André Breton The Batman Adventures: Mad Love , an Eisner and Harvey award-winning comic by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm Mad Love (publisher) , a short-lived comic book publisher, best known for publishing Alan Moore's Big Numbers Film and television [ edit ] Mad Love (1920 film) , starring Lina Cavalieri Mad Love ,

88-736: A financial crisis he experienced in 1931, most of his collection (along with that of his friend Paul Éluard) was auctioned. He subsequently rebuilt the collection in his studio and home at 42 rue Fontaine. The collection grew to over 5,300 items: modern paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, books, art catalogs, journals, manuscripts, and works of popular and Oceanic art. French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss endorsed Breton's skill in authentication based on their time together in 1940s New York. After Breton's death on 28 September 1966, his third wife, Elisa, and his daughter, Aube, allowed students and researchers access to his archive and collection. After thirty-six years, when attempts to establish

132-424: A 2015 French film "Mad Love" ( The New Batman Adventures ) , a 1999 episode of the animated series The New Batman Adventures Music [ edit ] Albums [ edit ] Mad Love (Linda Ronstadt album) , a 1980 album by Linda Ronstadt Mad Love (Robi Draco Rosa album) , a concept album by Robi Dräco Rosa Mad Love (EP) , a 1990 extended play album by Lush Mad Love. (JoJo album) ,

176-407: A 2016 album by JoJo Songs [ edit ] "Mad Love" (Sean Paul and David Guetta song) , by Sean Paul and David Guetta ”Mad Love.” (JoJo song) , a 2016 song by JoJo "Mad Love" (Mabel song) , a 2019 song by Mabel "Mad Love", a song by Bush from Black and White Rainbows "Mad Love", a song by Dido from the album Still on My Mind "Mad Love", a song by Linda Ronstadt from

220-557: A conference at the National Autonomous University of Mexico about surrealism, Breton stated after getting lost in Mexico City (as no one was waiting for him at the airport) "I don't know why I came here. Mexico is the most surrealist country in the world." However, visiting Mexico provided the opportunity to meet Leon Trotsky . Breton and other surrealists traveled via a long boat ride from Patzcuaro to

264-466: A general strike: Lescot was toppled a few days later. Among the figures associated with both La Ruche and the instigation of the revolt were the painter and photographer Gérald Bloncourt and the writers René Depestre and Jacques Stephen Alexis . In subsequent interviews Breton downplayed his personal role in the unrest, stressing that "the misery, and thus, the patience of the Haitian people, were at

308-515: A groundbreaking surrealist exhibition at Yale University . In 1942, Breton collaborated with artist Wifredo Lam on the publication of Breton's poem "Fata Morgana", which was illustrated by Lam. Breton got to know Martinican writers Suzanne Césaire and Aimé Césaire , and later composed the introduction to the 1947 edition of Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal . During his exile in New York City he met Elisa Bindhoff ,

352-521: A particular chord with the audience, namely surrealism's faith in youth, Haiti's revolutionary heritage, and a quote from Jacques Roumain extolling the revolutionary potential of the Haitian masses. Breton returned to Paris in 1946, where he opposed French colonialism (for example as a signatory of the Manifesto of the 121 against the Algerian War ) and continued, until his death, to foster

396-497: A second group of surrealists in the form of expositions or reviews ( La Brèche , 1961–65). In 1959, he organized an exhibit in Paris. By the end of World War II, André Breton decided to embrace anarchism explicitly. In 1952, Breton wrote "It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself." Breton consistently supported the francophone Anarchist Federation and he continued to offer his solidarity after

440-456: A second, revised edition in 1963. No English translation of this second edition is currently available. The narrator, named André, ruminates on a number of Surrealist principles, before ultimately commencing (around a third of the way through the novel) on a narrative account, generally linear, of his brief ten-day affair with the titular character Nadja. She is so named "because in Russian it's

484-592: A surrealist foundation to protect the collection were opposed, the collection was auctioned by Calmels Cohen at Drouot-Richelieu. A wall of the apartment is preserved at the Centre Georges Pompidou . Nine previously partly unpublished manuscripts, including the Manifeste du surréalisme , were auctioned by Sotheby's in May 2008. Breton married three times: Nadja (novel) Nadja (1928),

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528-622: A volume entitled Lettres de guerre (1919), for which Breton wrote four introductory essays. Breton married his first wife, Simone Kahn, on 15 September 1921. The couple relocated to rue Fontaine No. 42 in Paris on 1 January 1922. The apartment on rue Fontaine (in the Pigalle district) became home to Breton's collection of more than 5,300 items: modern paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, books, art catalogs, journals, manuscripts, and works of popular and Oceanic art. Like his father, he

572-414: Is doing, or care about her beyond his own ability to exploit her for his own artistic ends. With Nadja's past fixed within his own memory and consciousness, the narrator states he is awakened to the impenetrability of reality and perceives a particularly ghostly residue peeking from under its thin veil. Thus, he uses his imagination of another person to put into practice his theory of Surrealism, predicated on

616-444: Is grounded in reality by references to other Paris surrealists such as Louis Aragon and 44 photographs. The last sentence of the book ("Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all") provided the title for Pierre Boulez 's flute concerto ...explosante-fixe... . Dating from 1960, the widely available English translation by Richard Howard is a translation of the first edition of Breton's novel, dating from 1928. Breton published

660-405: Is later discovered that she is dealing with the emotional weight of losing a family member and spends time in a sanitarium, during which time André seems focused only on himself without considering her inner (or outer) world. After Nadja shares details of her own life, she in a sense becomes demystified, and the narrator decides that he cannot continue their relationship. In the remaining quarter of

704-652: The Bureau of Surrealist Research . A group of writers became associated with him: Soupault, Louis Aragon , Paul Éluard , René Crevel , Michel Leiris , Benjamin Péret , Antonin Artaud , and Robert Desnos . Eager to combine the themes of personal transformation found in the works of Arthur Rimbaud with the politics of Karl Marx , Breton and others joined the French Communist Party in 1927, from which he

748-683: The Chilean woman who would become his third wife. In 1944, he and Elisa traveled to the Gaspé Peninsula in Québec , where he wrote Arcane 17 , a book which expresses his fears of World War II, describes the marvels of the Percé Rock and the extreme northeastern part of North America, and celebrates his new romance with Elisa. During his visit to Haiti in 1945–46, he sought to connect surrealist politics and automatist practices with

792-510: The Manifesto had a second edition, where Breton added in a note: "While I say that this act is the simplest, it is clear that my intention is not to recommend it to all merely by virtue of its simplicity; to quarrel with me on this subject is much like a bourgeois asking any non-conformist why he does not commit suicide, or asking a revolutionary why he hasn't moved to the USSR". In 1935, there

836-756: The Platformists around founder and Secretary General Georges Fontenis transformed the FA into the Fédération communiste libertaire (FCL). Like a small number of intellectuals during the time of the Algerian War, he continued to support the FCL when it was forced to go underground, even providing shelter to Fontenis, who was in hiding. He refused to take sides in the politically divided French anarchist movement, even though both he and Péret expressed solidarity to

880-399: The U.S. distribution title for the 1921 German film Sappho starring Pola Negri Mad Love (1935 film) , a 1935 American film starring Peter Lorre L'Amour fou , a 1969 French film Mad Love (1995 film) , a 1995 American film starring Drew Barrymore Mad Love (2001 film) , a 2001 Spanish film Mad Love (TV series) , a 2011 television series Mad Love (2015 film) ,

924-437: The album Mad Love "Mad Love", a song by Neon Trees from the album Picture Show "Mad Love", a song by The Pretty Reckless from the album Who You Selling For "Mad Love", a song by The Veronicas from the self-titled album The Veronicas See also [ edit ] Amour fou (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

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968-455: The artist's international status from the late 1940s on, but the surrealist readily admitted that his understanding of Hyppolite's art was inhibited by their lack of a common language. Returning to France with multiple paintings by Hyppolite, Breton integrated this artwork into the increased surrealist focus on the occult, myth, and magic. Breton's sojourn in Haiti coincided with the overthrow of

1012-467: The beginning of the word hope, and because it's only the beginning", but her name might also evoke the Spanish "Nadie", which means "no one". Ultimately, it becomes apparent that she may be the one holding onto a unique perspective, the beginning of hope, while the narrator treats her as if she’s no one. The narrator becomes obsessed with this woman with whom he, upon a chance encounter while walking through

1056-545: The breaking point" at the time and stating that "it would be absurd to say that I alone incited the fall of the government". Michael Löwy has argued that the lectures that Breton gave during his time in Haiti resonated with the youth associated with La Ruche and the student movement, resulting in them "plac(ing) them as a banner on their journal" and "t(aking) hold of them as they would a weapon". Löwy has identified three themes in Breton's talks which he believes would have struck

1100-464: The country's president, Élie Lescot , by a radical protest movement. Breton's visit was warmly received by La Ruche , a youth journal of revolutionary art and politics, which in January 1946 published a talk given by Breton alongside a commentary which Breton described as having "an insurrectional tone". The issue concerned was suppressed by the government, sparking a student strike, and two days later,

1144-599: The legacies of the Haitian Revolution and the ritual practices of Vodou possession. Recent developments in Haitian painting were central to his efforts, as can be seen from a comment that Breton left in the visitors' book at the Centre d'Art in Port-au-Prince : "Haitian painting will drink the blood of the phoenix. And, with the epaulets of [Jean-Jacques] Dessalines , it will ventilate the world." Breton

1188-413: The movement. It marked a divide amidst the early surrealists. Georges Limbour and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes commented on the sentence where shooting at random in the crowd is described as the simplest surrealist act. Limbour saw in it an example of buffoonery and shamelessness and Ribemont-Dessaignes called Breton a hypocrite, a cop and a priest. After the publication of this pamphlet against Breton,

1232-569: The new Anarchist Federation rebuilt by a group of synthesist anarchists . He also worked with the FA in the Anti-Fascist Committees in the 1960s. André Breton died at the age of 70 in 1966, and was buried in the Cimetière des Batignolles in Paris. Breton was an avid collector of art, ethnographic material, and unusual trinkets. He was particularly interested in materials from the northwest coast of North America. During

1276-500: The notion that their propinquity serves only to remind André of Nadja's impenetrability. Her eventual recession into absence is the fundamental concern of this text, an absence that permits Nadja to live freely in André's conscious and unconscious, seemingly unbridled, maintaining her paradoxical role as both present and absent. Ironically, while the real life Nadia is in the same city as him, not once does he think to check on her, see how she

1320-402: The point of inducing tears. There is something about the closeness once supposedly felt between the narrator and Nadja before he heard more about her life that indicated to him a depth beyond the limits of conscious rationality, waking logic, and sane operations of the everyday. He prefers for there to be something essentially "mysterious, improbable, unique, bewildering" about her; this reinforces

1364-508: The second book published by André Breton , is one of the iconic works of the French surrealist movement. It begins with the question " Who am I? " It is based on Breton's actual interactions with a young woman, Nadja (actually Léona Camille Ghislaine Delacourt 1902–1941), over the course of ten days, and is presumed to be a semi-autobiographical description of his relationship with a patient of Pierre Janet . The book's non-linear structure

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1408-512: The street and shooting at random, as much as possible, into the crowd". In reaction to the Second manifesto , writers and artists published in 1930 a collective collection of pamphlets against Breton, entitled (in allusion to an earlier title by Breton) Un Cadavre . The authors were members of the surrealist movement who were insulted by Breton or had otherwise opposed his leadership. The pamphlet criticized Breton's oversight and influence over

1452-416: The street, strikes up conversation immediately. He becomes reliant on daily rendezvous, occasionally culminating in romance (a kiss here and there). His true fascination with Nadja, however, is her vision of the world, which is often provoked through a discussion of the work of a number of Surrealist artists, including himself. While her understanding of existence subverts the rigidly authoritarian quotidian, it

1496-485: The street, which resulted in surrealists being expelled from the Congress. René Crevel, who according to Salvador Dalí was "the only serious communist among surrealists", was isolated from Breton and other surrealists, who were unhappy with Crevel because of his bisexuality and annoyed with communists in general. In 1938, Breton accepted a cultural commission from the French government to travel to Mexico . After

1540-536: The surrealist movement he is the author of celebrated books such as Nadja and L'Amour fou . Those activities, combined with his critical and theoretical work on writing and the plastic arts, made André Breton a major figure in twentieth-century French art and literature. André Breton was the only son born to a family of modest means in Tinchebray ( Orne ) in Normandy , France. His father, Louis-Justin Breton,

1584-435: The text, André distances himself from her and descends into a meandering rumination on her absence, so much so that one wonders if her absence, and his imagination of her, allows him to continue objectifying her for his own inspiration in a way that her presence as a full fledged person, let alone friend, would be too humanizing for. It is, after all, Nadja as an ordinary person who André ultimately despises and cannot tolerate to

1628-485: The title Mad Love . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mad_Love&oldid=1140470184 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Andr%C3%A9 Breton Along with his role as leader of

1672-412: The town of Erongarícuaro . Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo were among the visitors to the hidden community of intellectuals and artists. Together, Breton and Trotsky wrote the Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art (published under the names of Breton and Diego Rivera) calling for "complete freedom of art", which was becoming increasingly difficult with the world situation of the time. Breton

1716-670: Was a conflict between Breton and the Soviet writer and journalist Ilya Ehrenburg during the first International Congress of Writers for the Defense of Culture, which opened in Paris in June. Breton had been insulted by Ehrenburg — along with all fellow surrealists — in a pamphlet which said, among other things, that surrealists shunned work, favouring parasitism , and that they endorsed " onanism , pederasty , fetishism , exhibitionism , and even sodomy ". Breton slapped Ehrenburg several times on

1760-727: Was a policeman and atheist , and his mother, Marguerite-Marie-Eugénie Le Gouguès, was a former seamstress. Breton attended medical school, where he developed a particular interest in mental illness . His education was interrupted when he was conscripted for World War I . During World War I , he worked in a neurological ward in Nantes , where he met the Alfred Jarry devotee Jacques Vaché , whose anti-social attitude and disdain for established artistic tradition influenced Breton considerably. Vaché committed suicide when aged 23, and his war-time letters to Breton and others were published in

1804-672: Was again in the medical corps of the French Army at the start of World War II . The Vichy government banned his writings as "the very negation of the national revolution " and Breton escaped, with the help of the American Varian Fry and Hiram "Harry" Bingham IV , to the United States and the Caribbean during 1941. He emigrated to New York City and lived there for a few years. In 1942, Breton organized

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1848-442: Was an atheist. Breton launched the review Littérature in 1919, with Louis Aragon and Philippe Soupault . He also associated with Dadaist Tristan Tzara . In Les Champs Magnétiques ( The Magnetic Fields ), a collaboration with Soupault, he implemented the principle of automatic writing . With the publication of his Surrealist Manifesto in 1924 came the founding of the magazine La Révolution surréaliste and

1892-529: Was expelled in 1933. Nadja , a novel about his imaginative encounter with a woman who later becomes mentally ill, was published in 1928. Due to the economic depression , he had to sell his art collection and rebuilt it later. In December 1929, Breton published the Second manifeste du surréalisme ( Second manifesto of surrealism ), which contained an oft-quoted declaration for which many, including Albert Camus , reproached Breton: "The simplest surrealist act consists, with revolvers in hand, of descending into

1936-407: Was specifically referring to the work of painter and Vodou priest Hector Hyppolite , whom he identified as the first artist to directly depict Vodou scenes and the lwa (Vodou deities), as opposed to hiding them in chromolithographs of Catholic saints or invoking them through impermanent vevé (abstracted forms drawn with powder during rituals). Breton's writings on Hyppolite were undeniably central to

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