00163--How did Surrealism contribute to the desacralization of the image of the author?

Surrealism was a French movement of the 1920’s.  Surrealism advocated free creativity.  It allows the hand to exercise full freedom leading to ‘automative writing’.  It does not give the head as much importance as is given to the hand.  Surrealism allows one to violate logical reason, standard, morality, social and artistic conventions and norms.  It aimed to ensure the unhampered operation of the deep mind.

00112--How did Surrealism Contribute to the desacrilization of the image of the Author?

            Surrealism  was a movement launched in France with the publication of Andre Breton's Manifesto on Surrealism in 1924.  The aim the movement was to revolt against all restraints on free creativity, artistic conventions and norms and all control over the artistic process by forethought and intention.  To ensure the unhampered process of creation, Surrealism launched a new method of writing which they called automatic writing.  Through the surrealist jolt, the movement recommended the abrupt disappointment of expectations of meaning.  It entrusted the hand with the task of writing as quickly as possible, meaning what the head is unaware of.  Surrealism accepted the principle of several people writing together.  Through there concepts and practices, Barthes argues, surrealism contributed much to the desacrilization of the image of the Author.