Jacques Baron

Jacques Baron (1905 - 1986) was a French surrealist poet whose first collection of poems was published in "Aventure" in 1921. Although he was initially involved with the Dada movement, he became a founding member of the Surrealist movement following his meeting with André Breton in 1921, [Brandon 193.] and contributed to "La Révolution surréaliste". In 1927, like many of his contemporaries, Baron joined the Cercle Communiste Démocratique. [Short 6.] Although fascinated by dream-like states of the nomadic unconscious and other imaginary worlds of the “marvelous”, a dispute with Breton in 1929 got him expelled from the movement. Baron became associated with Georges Bataille and "Documents", [Spiteri 27.] in which he published a short essay on "Crustaceans for the Critical Dictionary" (1929, issue 6), an article on the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz (1930, issue 1), and a poem dedicated to Picasso "Flames" (1930, issue 3). He later collaborated on a number of reviews such as "Le Voyage en Grèce", "La Critique Sociale" and "Minotaure". Baron also wrote a novel, "Charbon de mer" (1935), "a mémoire, L’An 1 du Surréalisme" (1969), and a collection of poems, "L’Allure poétique" (1973).

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*Brandon, Ruth. "Surreal Lives: The Surrealists, 1917-1945". London: Macmillan, 1999.
*Short, Robert. "The Politics of Surrealism, 1920-1936." "Journal of Contemporary History" 1 (1966).
*Spiteri, Raymond. "Envisioning Surrealism in Histoire De L'OEil and la Femme 100 Tetes." "Art Journal" 63 (2004).

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